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 is fast and reliable. It works."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"Valuable features include the intuitiveness of the SAN itself, a lot of the built-in logic and functionality, the tiering that it uses to determine what type of disk is best for the various types of workloads, and the automation that is built in. It's also easy to manage."
"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 is a stable solution."
"Technical support for both 3PAR and Dell EMC in my country, Iran, is very difficult because we are under sanctions."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"You can use different protocols at the same time. Monitoring is also very easy in NetApp FAS Series. There is a free tool for monitoring."
"The best feature is its ONTAP product line for Ransomware protection. It also has features for file storage and block storage. The solution is stable. We've had no issues with it. The tool is scalable and meets our requirements. The technical support and the supporting partner are great. The initial setup is straightforward. It is very easy to maintain the product. The feature set is excellent. I recommend the solution."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"Automation could be simplified."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"The interface to manage it could be improved. I was looking at OneView. Something basic like that should be available with the 3PAR. OneView has all the bells and whistles, all the features, but I think something basic and similar to that should be come with the 3PAR, at least for monitoring managing it."
"I would like them to improve it so I can do firmware upgrades without downtime."
"I would like to see the reliability improve. While it has been a good product, the QA of the product could be done a little more thoroughly."
"We are still waiting for the compression feature to be deployed."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"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."
"Integration with some cloud services would be nice... We would like to be able to provision from the 3PAR and decide whether or not we are going to provision onsite or the cloud."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"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."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"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."
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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