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."Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"I like that it's stable. This is the reason why we're using these products. We work in the broadcast market, and stability is very important. HPE has global services, and that's also important. Dell and HPE are some big companies, and their solutions are robust and stable."
"Tech support is great, and that is for any of their team who has ever worked with us. They are willing and committed to making sure the customer is treated the way we need to be."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated."
"With the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, we can grow as required."
"The solution has improved our throughput by helping us keep up with the demand and acquisitions that we have been going through."
"When we bought it, the big sell for us was what they called "wide striping", how they striped the data and could get performance on a cheaper disk. Nowadays, the newer models that are out, which we are going to in the next couple of years, the most valuable feature is mainly being able to achieve such high IOPS in such a small chassis."
"The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us."
"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."
"The product is flexible."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"The solution is stable."
"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 most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"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."
"Scalability and management could be improved."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"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."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"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."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"The biggest issue we face is parts delivery. There's no local warehouse in Myanmar, so if a customer encounters a technical problem like an IMEI issue, they have to wait a long time for replacement parts."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
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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