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 solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"Very efficient storage"
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"The reliability is very good."
"Multi-tier storage was the primary reason that we bought it. I also love the interface that you use for administering it."
"The solution is easy to install."
"When we started using 3PAR what we liked was the simplicity of the product. We needed a higher performance storage and, in our support model, we needed to keep the simplicity of the storage architecture, keep it as clean and as manageable as we could."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"The solution is quite stable and scalable."
"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."
"It's pretty stable and scalable. I think we've only had a couple of issues, three disk outages in six years."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"if it were easier for us to manage the product ourselves without having to get HPE to connect, because it sometimes it does take a bit to get the scheduling worked out with the HPE support. If it were simpler, then it might be easier for us to handle it ourselves."
"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 Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"HPE could improve by making an old flash system in order to compete with the current market. For the solution to be more competitive in the mid-range market they could increase the performance."
"There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"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."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
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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