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 worked flawlessly."
"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."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"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 works well and we don't have any issues with this solution."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"They are using Ansible to automate the provisioning, so that simplifies the day-to-day operations."
"The solution is quite stable and scalable."
"The deduplication is pretty impressive because it will shrink. We also do some clones in addition to the snapshots, where we can have multiple clones. These reduce the actual written storage by as much as 50 percent."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"I like the integration with VMware and the provisioning. We also use data compression but not for any of the critical applications."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"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."
"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."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"I need flexibility for interoperability across multiple platforms, not just HPE."
"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."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"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."
"This solution is becoming dated."
"The first array that they sent us was in some type of a factory mode. We didn't find that out until we loaded a bunch of data onto it, then we had to back it all off. We had to replace the array, which was sort of painful."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"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."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"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 product should include an audit log feature."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
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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