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 scalability is good."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The performance is very good."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"Our applications are now at least two to four times faster."
"It all works in concert using Recovery Manager Central (RMC). HPE coordinates it all, so it is more of a solution instead of products trying to do things together."
"If you can handle the IOPS, throughput is a natural byproduct. Usually, IOPS is where you are capped. HPE has done a great job in making sure that our IOP-intensive EMRs stay up and running. We have really good performance on them."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"The solution, stability, and the performance work well for us."
"It is reliable, and it seems like a solid product. It has been working well so far."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"The features which are most valuable are the availability of the system and the management."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"The solution is stable."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"I would like to see more flexibility with the cloud. I've actually just been in a presentation about it, here at HPE Discover 2018, so those features are coming."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"Upgrades on them are a bit tricky. For us to do a head swap on one is a full outer joiner storage frame, which is obviously not that easy to do in a production environment."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"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."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"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."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"Needs more SAN support."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
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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