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."It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"There's a lot of good features. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is similar to Dell EMC. It is a high-speed system with automatic failover/failback, integrated with Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware. These are the main reason for choosing HPE 3PAR StoreServ in Denmark. We have a very good consulting service together with the product."
"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."
"It is worry-free. I do not have to sit there and tend it."
"It has allowed us to set up a fully functioning disaster recovery site with replication, which we have been able to configure between our 3PAR systems."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"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."
"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."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"NAS stability"
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"The tool is old."
"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."
"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."
"The performance of the solution is not good anymore and the software is different from all the other types and is not compatible. There are more negative things at this moment than positive. This is why we are removing them all from our organization this year."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"Its price is a bit high for adding another tree."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"The WAFL is slow."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
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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