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."Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily."
"It has been very stable. We've had very minor issues, but I've loved how HPE is proactive on letting us know. Usually, they let us know before we notice it ourselves and they already have a solution for us. It has been great that way."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data."
"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."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The product is flexible."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"The interface to manage it could be improved. I was looking at OneView. Something basic like that should be available with the 3PAR. OneView has all the bells and whistles, all the features, but I think something basic and similar to that should be come with the 3PAR, at least for monitoring managing it."
"I want artificial intelligence. I don't want anybody from my team to touch it anymore. I want the AI to do everything."
"I give it an eight because of the support, that I can't get support in my country. This is the worst part. Support cannot be sold until we are out of the sanctions."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"File Persona can be better. I don't use File Persona because it has many problems with my environment. The antivirus that it has is not compatible with File Persona, and that's a big issue with File Persona. 3PAR is not as good as Dell when making a file in the storage. 3PAR for a block is very good, but when comparing row capacity, I get 14% capacity with 3PAR, but with Dell, I get 60% capacity."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 97 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 VAST Data. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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