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 helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"I have a lot of applications that need higher IOPS, and 3PAR achieves this operation normally without any issues for the management."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"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."
"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."
"It is easy to use and understand. It is also very stable."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"Having moved over from a lefthand, which was seven or eight years old, there's a massive boost in performance. It has definitely improved the speed, the responsiveness, of all our applications."
"The technical support is very good."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"The solution is stable."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"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."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"We are waiting for compression."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"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."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
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, 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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