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."This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"We like the speed. It's very low latency. In virtualization, you can mask lots of problems, and even in code you can mask lots of problems, with low latency. It's just pure speed and low latency."
"It is a really stable product. We have not had any major issues at the moment."
"The performance has been fantastic. It has not had many issues whatsoever, and what issues they do have, the support picks up on it quickly. They send us tickets saying that they are doing work without us even having to engage them."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding."
"The most valuable feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"It is worry-free. I do not have to sit there and tend it."
"Very recently, we are able to do a lot of data center automation by being able to script some of the 3PAR actions for our private cloud."
"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."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"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."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"NAS stability"
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"It needs to improve its price."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"We had a minor error when we were configuring this system, which initially detracted from its overall stability."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"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."
"The first array that they sent us was in some type of a factory mode. We didn't find that out until we loaded a bunch of data onto it, then we had to back it all off. We had to replace the array, which was sort of painful."
"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."
"I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team."
"The initial setup was easy. However, we get stuck on preconditions. We were not aware of some of the preconditions."
"The WAFL is slow."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
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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