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."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."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The reliability is very good."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"Very efficient storage"
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes."
"It's a really stable solution. We have no problems with the customer, no negative feedback from them on this."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"It is a stable solution."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"Being able to provision drives on demand, as opposed to populating a whole stack of drives and not using them. In the latter scenario, you are locking your money in, you don't get a return on investment. On the fly, you can build up your storage as needed, so that's a very good feature."
"It is worry-free. I do not have to sit there and tend it."
"I do not have to worry about cross systems talking to each other or multiple systems trying to interact with each other. Our entire vCenter infrastructure is one large stack, which is nice."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"The product is flexible."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"As a management tool, it would help us to have more customer reports."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"The price is a little bit high."
"This product has come to the end of its lifecycle."
"...sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. There were a lot of different things that had to happen which was the reason why they had to send out the HPE engineers to help us."
"A lot of tasks, you have to manually set up. They need to already have them set up and working. Then, you can just go in and tweak them if you need to."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"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."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
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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