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's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"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."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up."
"From a single panel, I can see the performance of my service, my network, and my storage."
"The most valuable feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing)."
"We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data."
"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 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."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"One of the most valuable features offered is double-parity RAID, which guarantees that your data will stay intact. We're also able to provision storage and monitor which ones are really consuming storage."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The product is flexible."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"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 one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"We have had some challenges in the Arabic implementation and in migration, but for daily work, it's fine."
"We have issues with scalability because 3PAR has limited storage capacity, so we have to invest more after a while."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"There were a few goofy things with support where we were trying to do OS upgrades and HPE MyRoom failed. However, they would not get on WebEx because they are only allowed to get on HPE MyRoom."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"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."
"I want artificial intelligence. I don't want anybody from my team to touch it anymore. I want the AI to do everything."
"Feature-wise, with the InfoSight additions, there is a lot of the stuff missing in the intelligent interface. As they grow and push, a lot of it will not tie into Hyper-V."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"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."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"We have some experience with older equipment end-of-life. For example, when warranty support stops or updates stop – it can be frustrating. Not all clients can buy a new filer every year or two, and NetApp ending support a bit quickly can be a concern."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"The solution could do more than just data."
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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