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 pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"The technical support is very good."
"Support has been helpful."
"The reliability is very good."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us."
"The most valuable feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"The technical support is very good."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"From my perspective, it's really easy for me to be able to get in and do any troubleshooting with it and it's very consistent."
"The biggest benefit is the fact that it's pretty much bulletproof; we never have any issues with them."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"The support is very good."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"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."
"It is a bit expensive."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"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."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"We would like to see the ability to not only be integrated with hybrid IT, but on-prem."
"We have issues with scalability because 3PAR has limited storage capacity, so we have to invest more after a while."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"This product has come to the end of its lifecycle."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
"The product is quite expensive."
"I would like to have more details on alerting. It is not real granular right now. What It gives you is sort of basic, and we can't do a lot of tweaking on our own. We would like to be able to tweak some of the alerts for our team."
"The management console could use some work. All the functionality is there, of course, but it can be hard to find some features or do certain tasks."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"We have some experience with older equipment end-of-life. For example, when warranty support stops or updates stop – it can be frustrating. Not all clients can buy a new filer every year or two, and NetApp ending support a bit quickly can be a concern."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
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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