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 tool has reduced our power consumption."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"We can quickly see performance per CPG and per LUN. You can drill right down to see actual performance to the virtual volumes themselves. That's really good."
"We have been able to back up our data more frequently now that we have everything on flash. It responds a lot faster, so the IOPs are a lot faster."
"We have our backups set up to replicate between two sites, then we also have our storage set up to replicate between two sites."
"The technical support has been fantastic."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has been stable."
"For virtualization, the failure rate is much less compared to traditional storage where you need more hard drives"
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"It is very flexible. It integrates well with the public cloud and other components, so everything can be API driven. Therefore, it is very easy to automate it."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"The price could be better."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"HPE could improve by making an old flash system in order to compete with the current market. For the solution to be more competitive in the mid-range market they could increase the performance."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"The tool is old."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"I would like to see more storage, a better interface, and to move from mechanical disks."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"Needs more SAN support."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
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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