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 simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"They are using Ansible to automate the provisioning, so that simplifies the day-to-day operations."
"It has improved uptime, as well as speed to delivery."
"The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days."
"The tech support is great. If we have a problem, we literally will have boots on the ground with senior sales people, as well as the people to fix the problem, to help make sure we are taken care of."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"It runs. I don't have a problem with it. If it needs an update, I can do it in the middle of the day with nobody being the wiser. It is phenomenal in that respect. As a hospital, I get two hours every quarter to reboot things, so it is imperative that nothing goes down."
"The most valuable feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"We need longer names for our volumes. Now it's only 28 characters. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters."
"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."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"I would like to see improvement in the product's scalability. As a partner, I had serious problems because of the competition from Dell EMC and Pure."
"Would like to see some management functions through a web interface."
"It is suitable for medium-sized businesses and data centers with less number of users and less important data. It is not really an enterprise-level solution. It needs more capacity. It is also not really stable. It should be more stable. It should also support any server model. It is really weak in this area."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"Scalability and management could be improved."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"They should add new features to the product."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"Needs more SAN support."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 298 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 96 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 ExaGrid EX Series. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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