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 stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"If you can handle the IOPS, throughput is a natural byproduct. Usually, IOPS is where you are capped. HPE has done a great job in making sure that our IOP-intensive EMRs stay up and running. We have really good performance on them."
"It works well and we don't have any issues with this solution."
"The most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence."
"It has improved the ability of the executives to get proper insights."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"For us, the greatest aspect of the solution is the fact that it just runs. It is amazingly resilient. That's very important to us, because we are basically, with some exceptions, have a 24/7 operation."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Fast Snapshots"
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"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."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"We are waiting for compression."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"Generally, the management of the multiple systems that we have is really the only problem, always having to go to all these separate tools to manage everything."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"if it were easier for us to manage the product ourselves without having to get HPE to connect, because it sometimes it does take a bit to get the scheduling worked out with the HPE support. If it were simpler, then it might be easier for us to handle it ourselves."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ could have better integration into the cloud and converged infrastructure."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"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."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
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 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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