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 stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"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."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"The technical support is very good."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"The most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"The intelligence around the solution is good."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"The product has definitely improved throughput. We are able to more efficiently see patients because all of our medical records and practice management software seems to run faster. Uploading images and charts is a lot faster. Recalling information in the exam rooms is faster. The overall throughput of data, going back and forth, is so we can more efficiently see patients, and it also helps increase our patient flow. We can see patients a lot faster, getting them in and out a lot more quickly."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"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 file sharing feature is most valuable."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"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."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"We are waiting for compression."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"Our support in the US has been phenomenal, no issues at all. But the European support was poor initially."
"The configuration and flexibility should improve."
"It's still an older architecture, you've got a lot of physical spinning disks. I would imagine more the memory-based computing is coming."
"3PAR has StoreOnce and replication. I would like it if they worked together. Or, if I had Nimble and put that either in DR or a primary cohesive management, but still use the cool features of 3PAR, that would be awesome."
"I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities."
"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."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"Needs more SAN support."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"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."
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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