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 performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"The InfoSight feature helps us with troubleshooting problems in our environment."
"The support is really fast. There is very good support for 3PAR storage."
"I am a system integrator, so we sell a lot of 3PAR storage to our customers. Our business has increased compared to previous days."
"The command line is very extensive, a lot of tools so in comparison to other vendors. It's one of the great things about 3PAR, that you can really drill down on performance, get statistics, really know how your system is internally performing."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"The tool is fast and easy to use. You can also configure it easily. The product also has good performance tuning."
"We're hosting virtual infrastructure on the 3PAR storage and it's been very good for that."
"The features which are most valuable are the availability of the system and the management."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"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."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"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."
"The price could be better."
"We have issues with scalability because 3PAR has limited storage capacity, so we have to invest more after a while."
"We had a minor error when we were configuring this system, which initially detracted from its overall stability."
"The cloud-based monitoring Infosight would be better if users are automatically enrolled in the cloud/group based on the configuration or information gathered or uploaded on the internet."
"We do not use Memory-Driven Flash in the old 3PAR. Perhaps we will use it in the new 3PAR. That is part of the reason why we are upgrading."
"I would like to see a faster Ethernet connection. Right now, it is 10G. If they could do multiple hundred gigs to speed up the transfer from the array to the servers, that would be good. We are trying to get away from Fibre Channel."
"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."
"A lot of tasks, you have to manually set up. They need to already have them set up and working. Then, you can just go in and tweak them if you need to."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"They should add new features to the product."
"The product must support more drives."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 12 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 19 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "Reliable with a good user interface and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". 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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