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 speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"Technical support is good."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"I like the integration with VMware and the provisioning. We also use data compression but not for any of the critical applications."
"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 overall quality of the product is fantastic. Advanced Optimization is one of the best features I never thought I needed until I actually used it and saw it in action."
"The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"Most valuable features are its ease of use, robust Snapshot functionality, and that you can use it in two datacenters with SnapMirror-ing."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"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."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"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."
"We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"Here in Algeria, we are facing a lot of trouble finding partners and getting support from HPE. There should be better support here in our country."
"Would like to see some management functions through a web interface."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"HP has several integration elements that work with other vendor storage products. I'd like to see a greater expansion on that so that a customer can do a more seamless migration from other vendor products."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"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."
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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