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 back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The technical support is good."
"Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance"
"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."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"The solution is easy to use and very stable."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses."
"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."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The solution is stable."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"The hard part with the initial setup was that we were on EMC VNX and trying to get those converted over into the HPE 3PAR, that process took awhile, along with scheduling downtime to get some of the physical stuff migrated over to the new device."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"Would like to see some management functions through a web interface."
"We need longer names for our volumes. Now it's only 28 characters. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"We have had a few issues with it. We had our virtual environment lock up a few times on storage-based things. We think we have it sorted out, but maybe it came down to a configuration issue on it."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"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."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
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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