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 performance is very good."
"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 of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"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."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"It's reliable and it's fast."
"The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us."
"We built a DR solution based on this, we can sustain our business for any amount of time, 24/7."
"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 allows us to cohost as needed. We are able to put more systems on one data storage system and it is still able to deliver the availability and speed that we need it to deliver."
"The deduplication is pretty impressive because it will shrink. We also do some clones in addition to the snapshots, where we can have multiple clones. These reduce the actual written storage by as much as 50 percent."
"It is a stable solution."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"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."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"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."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"The first array that they sent us was in some type of a factory mode. We didn't find that out until we loaded a bunch of data onto it, then we had to back it all off. We had to replace the array, which was sort of painful."
"Its price is a bit high for adding another tree."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"The tool is old."
"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."
"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."
"Feature-wise, with the InfoSight additions, there is a lot of the stuff missing in the intelligent interface. As they grow and push, a lot of it will not tie into Hyper-V."
"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."
"They should add new features to the product."
"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 user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 12 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 19 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "Reliable with a good user interface and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". 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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