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 helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick."
"The solution fetches quick responses in milliseconds which can be within 40-50 milliseconds."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"The ease of management is its most valuable feature. It is so much easier to manage storage on a 3PAR array than anything that we have had before."
"The most valuable feature of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is its storage capabilities."
"The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"The solution is stable."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"The best feature is its ONTAP product line for Ransomware protection. It also has features for file storage and block storage. The solution is stable. We've had no issues with it. The tool is scalable and meets our requirements. The technical support and the supporting partner are great. The initial setup is straightforward. It is very easy to maintain the product. The feature set is excellent. I recommend the solution."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"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."
"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."
"We have had some challenges in the Arabic implementation and in migration, but for daily work, it's fine."
"Extending is not a problem, scalability is okay. But once you buy additional box of disks, you have to wait for HPE to contact you with their plan for implementation, for connecting, and it can take several weeks. So, you have the box and you have to wait for several weeks to actually implement it."
"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."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"The interface could be improved to match the system."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"The WAFL is slow."
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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