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."Technical support is good."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"This solution has allowed for massive performance acceleration of all workloads and massively increased availability (with peer persistence/transparent failover feature)."
"Whatever failures you have, there is no single point of failure. So, any failure, you get an alert, you have time, you plan the fix, the replacement, and so on. So your operations are intact."
"The product has definitely improved throughput. We are able to more efficiently see patients because all of our medical records and practice management software seems to run faster. Uploading images and charts is a lot faster. Recalling information in the exam rooms is faster. The overall throughput of data, going back and forth, is so we can more efficiently see patients, and it also helps increase our patient flow. We can see patients a lot faster, getting them in and out a lot more quickly."
"It's pretty stable and scalable. I think we've only had a couple of issues, three disk outages in six years."
"We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"This solution is becoming dated."
"We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"There were a few goofy things with support where we were trying to do OS upgrades and HPE MyRoom failed. However, they would not get on WebEx because they are only allowed to get on HPE MyRoom."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"The WAFL is slow."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
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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