We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"Scalability is incredible. We have a single server cabinet today, but we can grow it to as many cabinets as we need."
"This solution has allowed for massive performance acceleration of all workloads and massively increased availability (with peer persistence/transparent failover feature)."
"The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days."
"The stability is what we consider to be the best feature it provides. The stability of this solution is what conquers us, every day."
"The tech support is great. If we have a problem, we literally will have boots on the ground with senior sales people, as well as the people to fix the problem, to help make sure we are taken care of."
"We use all the features, but some of the most valuable are the replication, priority optimization, provisioning, and deduplication. There are a lot of good features in this product."
"This product is stable, aside from the performance problems we had."
"It is reliable, and it seems like a solid product. It has been working well so far."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"The solution is stable."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"The support is very good."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"I would like the documentation easy to find. There is a lot of documentation, but sometimes it is hard to find. You have to do a lot of searching to find it."
"I would like to see a little bit more integration from a cloud perspective. In this way, I would have some more flexibility to do more with data, how to store it, and where I have it."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"The new feature sets, like deduplication and compression, are complex to work with. I hope when I view the roadmap that they will be less complex."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 298 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 96 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp AFF, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and ExaGrid EX Series. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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