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 initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"The technical support is very good."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"It has been very stable. We've had very minor issues, but I've loved how HPE is proactive on letting us know. Usually, they let us know before we notice it ourselves and they already have a solution for us. It has been great that way."
"I like that 3PAR can remake the disk online. That's one of the best features because when we first started, that was the best. The team provisioning feature was also a good one. Those features are the best for me, provisioning and online optimization, and the tier you can have for storage."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"The chunklet technology is the main benefit out of 3PAR. The way it subdivides. It is using more logic to subdivide the drives into smaller pieces."
"We never had a blackout and we have never been offline."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"Good performance because it's an all-flash system. Basically, our applications run faster."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"The solution is stable."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"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 SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"The price should be lower."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"It is suitable for medium-sized businesses and data centers with less number of users and less important data. It is not really an enterprise-level solution. It needs more capacity. It is also not really stable. It should be more stable. It should also support any server model. It is really weak in this area."
"I would like an easier user interface and setup to help with deployment. There were many areas of the setup where I was like, “Why don't we do it this way?” Therefore, some of the things in the user interface could have been more refined, so you don't have to click in 5000 different places to accomplish one goal. Less clicks means more efficiency."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"We need longer names for our volumes. Now it's only 28 characters. It should be 64, or at least more than 32 characters."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"The biggest issue we face is parts delivery. There's no local warehouse in Myanmar, so if a customer encounters a technical problem like an IMEI issue, they have to wait a long time for replacement parts."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
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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