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."Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"The scalability is good."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"We're using the all-flash arrays and, with the deduplication and compression, it just really fits our virtualization environment very well."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"The most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence."
"The features which are most valuable are the availability of the system and the management."
"The most valuable feature of HPE 3PAR StoreServ is its storage capabilities."
"The scalability is good because it is easy to add in new disks. We just add them on the fly, and they are available for use."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"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."
"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."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"It needs to improve its price."
"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."
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"The price is a little bit high."
"Here in Algeria, we are facing a lot of trouble finding partners and getting support from HPE. There should be better support here in our country."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"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."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"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."
"Needs more SAN support."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
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 and NetApp AFF, 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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