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."The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use, fully featured and has a great graphical user interface."
"It runs. I don't have a problem with it. If it needs an update, I can do it in the middle of the day with nobody being the wiser. It is phenomenal in that respect. As a hospital, I get two hours every quarter to reboot things, so it is imperative that nothing goes down."
"I have a lot of applications that need higher IOPS, and 3PAR achieves this operation normally without any issues for the management."
"Valuable features include the intuitiveness of the SAN itself, a lot of the built-in logic and functionality, the tiering that it uses to determine what type of disk is best for the various types of workloads, and the automation that is built in. It's also easy to manage."
"We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data."
"It's a really stable solution. We have no problems with the customer, no negative feedback from them on this."
"The product has definitely improved throughput. We are able to more efficiently see patients because all of our medical records and practice management software seems to run faster. Uploading images and charts is a lot faster. Recalling information in the exam rooms is faster. The overall throughput of data, going back and forth, is so we can more efficiently see patients, and it also helps increase our patient flow. We can see patients a lot faster, getting them in and out a lot more quickly."
"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."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"It is very flexible. It integrates well with the public cloud and other components, so everything can be API driven. Therefore, it is very easy to automate it."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is stable."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"I would like to be able to deploy and manage 3PAR within OneView Global Dashboard so we do not have to use the interface for 3PAR."
"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."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"The product is quite expensive."
"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."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"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."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"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."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
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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