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 excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"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"
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"Technical support for both 3PAR and Dell EMC in my country, Iran, is very difficult because we are under sanctions."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"For virtualization, the failure rate is much less compared to traditional storage where you need more hard drives"
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"It has improved the ability of the executives to get proper insights."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"It is very flexible. It integrates well with the public cloud and other components, so everything can be API driven. Therefore, it is very easy to automate it."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"The tool needs improvement in the utilization report at the granular level."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
"The configuration and flexibility should improve."
"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."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"The interface could be improved to match the system."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
"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 NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"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."
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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