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."It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"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."
"It's actually very stable"
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It's pretty stable and scalable. I think we've only had a couple of issues, three disk outages in six years."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"It is worry-free. I do not have to sit there and tend it."
"It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"The stability is what we consider to be the best feature it provides. The stability of this solution is what conquers us, every day."
"It all works in concert using Recovery Manager Central (RMC). HPE coordinates it all, so it is more of a solution instead of products trying to do things together."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"Fast Snapshots"
"NAS stability"
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"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."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"Integration with some cloud services would be nice... We would like to be able to provision from the 3PAR and decide whether or not we are going to provision onsite or the cloud."
"It's a very complex platform to manage and it's not cheap either. It doesn't really give us the level of flexibility we had for very, very small workloads."
"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."
"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."
"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 compatibility with NVMe."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The product must support more drives."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"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."
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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