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 most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"Good performance because it's an all-flash system. Basically, our applications run faster."
"So far, we have yet to have a disk fail on either system, other than one I forced to fail when we first got the system in. So the reliability of the 3PAR system has been outstanding."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform."
"The most valuable feature of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is its storage capabilities."
"The tool is fast and easy to use. You can also configure it easily. The product also has good performance tuning."
"If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage."
"You can use different protocols at the same time. Monitoring is also very easy in NetApp FAS Series. There is a free tool for monitoring."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
"The management console could use some work. All the functionality is there, of course, but it can be hard to find some features or do certain tasks."
"We need additional enhancements to InfoSight, especially from a VM standpoint. Today, we can see in the Azure VM performance stats in 3PAR, but it is so huge, we can't just drill down on each and every VM and look at its performance."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"The product is quite expensive."
"There were a few goofy things with support where we were trying to do OS upgrades and HPE MyRoom failed. However, they would not get on WebEx because they are only allowed to get on HPE MyRoom."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"The WAFL is slow."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"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."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 12 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 19 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "Reliable with a good user interface and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". 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 VAST Data. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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