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 tool has reduced our power consumption."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"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."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"It's actually very stable"
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"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."
"In the deployment of virtual servers, I can have a new VM up and running in 15 minutes, run the patches, then done. I routinely fire up base images that I have for my servers: Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. I routinely fire those base images up and do all the updates, then prep them again for cloning. With 3PAR, we definitely have the performance to do that. Those images I do keep on SSD just to have that performance to deploy a new VM."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"Stability is awesome. Its performance has been steady and it stays up."
"It was the easiest SAN that I have ever set up."
"3PAR is easy to keep running and does not require too much effort. It has been very reliable, which is key."
"We went to an Active-Active data center, set it up to where both data centers are separate, but they act as one. We can have workloads at either side at any given time, and it is all based on the Peer Persistence architecture."
"There are a lot of screens for easy management where you can change some settings. But after a few years, the important settings were better after an upgrade, and all the vendors have other ways to upgrade their systems."
"The command line is very extensive, a lot of tools so in comparison to other vendors. It's one of the great things about 3PAR, that you can really drill down on performance, get statistics, really know how your system is internally performing."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"I would like the documentation easy to find. There is a lot of documentation, but sometimes it is hard to find. You have to do a lot of searching to find it."
"The price is a little bit high."
"Anything new can be complex. There were some things in the initial deployment that I was not happy about. One of my directives was, "However, it's configured, ensure that it can never be overprovisioned." That one key thing was overlooked. This is why I had to have a support call last year, because it actually became overprovisioned and I had to move some stuff around."
"In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users."
"There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"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."
"We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
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, 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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