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."One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The solution is very reliable."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use and very stable."
"We're hosting virtual infrastructure on the 3PAR storage and it's been very good for that."
"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment."
"Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"I would like to see compatibility with NVMe."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"The hard part with the initial setup was that we were on EMC VNX and trying to get those converted over into the HPE 3PAR, that process took awhile, along with scheduling downtime to get some of the physical stuff migrated over to the new device."
"The cloud-based monitoring Infosight would be better if users are automatically enrolled in the cloud/group based on the configuration or information gathered or uploaded on the internet."
"The price is a little bit high."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"I would like to see more flexibility with the cloud. I've actually just been in a presentation about it, here at HPE Discover 2018, so those features are coming."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"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 product should improve its user experience."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
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, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and VAST Data. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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