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 speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"It has helped a lot for times when our customers do DR testing. Instead of having to spin down and spin up, I can do it live and seamless. I do not have to schedule downtime with an organization."
"We're using the all-flash arrays and, with the deduplication and compression, it just really fits our virtualization environment very well."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"It's pretty stable and scalable. I think we've only had a couple of issues, three disk outages in six years."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"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."
"You can use different protocols at the same time. Monitoring is also very easy in NetApp FAS Series. There is a free tool for monitoring."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"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 solution is stable."
"The support is very good."
"The product is flexible."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"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."
"I would like to see improvement in the product's scalability. As a partner, I had serious problems because of the competition from Dell EMC and Pure."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
"Upgrades on them are a bit tricky. For us to do a head swap on one is a full outer joiner storage frame, which is obviously not that easy to do in a production environment."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"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 initial setup was easy. However, we get stuck on preconditions. We were not aware of some of the preconditions."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
"The WAFL is slow."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"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."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
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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