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."It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"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."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing)."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"This is a stable solution."
"Having moved over from a lefthand, which was seven or eight years old, there's a massive boost in performance. It has definitely improved the speed, the responsiveness, of all our applications."
"It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up."
"The solution is easy to install."
"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."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"The support is very good."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"Fast Snapshots"
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"Scalability and management could be improved."
"I would like to see the ability to be able to migrate to newer versions of the 3PAR without having to take any of our data offline and be able to upgrade on the fly."
"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."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"We have had a few issues with it. We had our virtual environment lock up a few times on storage-based things. We think we have it sorted out, but maybe it came down to a configuration issue on it."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"The solution could be improved in regard to space reclamation by adding automation."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"They should add new features to the product."
"The user interface could be improved."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 98 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, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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