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."Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"Multi-tier storage was the primary reason that we bought it. I also love the interface that you use for administering it."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"The Remote Copy Group is amazing for the replication stuff."
"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."
"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."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"I have a lot of applications that need higher IOPS, and 3PAR achieves this operation normally without any issues for the management."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"The product is flexible."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"The file functionality could be better."
"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 next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"The solution is not cheap."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"I would like to see the ability to be able to migrate to newer versions of the 3PAR without having to take any of our data offline and be able to upgrade on the fly."
"The tool has low storage and low performance. This can be solved by adding more disco to the solution. The product’s pricing is also suited for enterprise businesses rather than smaller ones.I would like to see better performance, UI, and compatibility with other products in future releases."
"File Persona can be better. I don't use File Persona because it has many problems with my environment. The antivirus that it has is not compatible with File Persona, and that's a big issue with File Persona. 3PAR is not as good as Dell when making a file in the storage. 3PAR for a block is very good, but when comparing row capacity, I get 14% capacity with 3PAR, but with Dell, I get 60% capacity."
"We are seeing that there are some enhancements which are required in the SSMC console. There are some features that we do not see in the dashboard."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
"I need flexibility for interoperability across multiple platforms, not just HPE."
"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 are waiting for compression."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"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."
"The product must support more drives."
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 IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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