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."Technical support is good."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"The performance is very good."
"Stability is awesome. Its performance has been steady and it stays up."
"We have much better performance than we managed earlier and are now saving lots of space."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"The product has definitely improved throughput. We are able to more efficiently see patients because all of our medical records and practice management software seems to run faster. Uploading images and charts is a lot faster. Recalling information in the exam rooms is faster. The overall throughput of data, going back and forth, is so we can more efficiently see patients, and it also helps increase our patient flow. We can see patients a lot faster, getting them in and out a lot more quickly."
"We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"We have had it for about two years and had zero problems with it."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"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."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"An area of improvement for this solution is an increase in the bandwidth as well as an upgrade of the storage functionality and capabilities. The storage needs to be expandable for future-proofing."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"I would like to see more flexibility with the cloud. I've actually just been in a presentation about it, here at HPE Discover 2018, so those features are coming."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"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."
"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."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"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."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
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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