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 helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"Support has been helpful."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"We have additional space in the enclosures for additional disks, so we can scale up without any downtime."
"Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance"
"We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding."
"Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use and very stable."
"3PAR is easy to keep running and does not require too much effort. It has been very reliable, which is key."
"It has a really powerful tool to measure data, how it is working, the performance, and if we have any bottlenecks."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"For us, the greatest aspect of the solution is the fact that it just runs. It is amazingly resilient. That's very important to us, because we are basically, with some exceptions, have a 24/7 operation."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"They could improve the price."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"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."
"The price could be better."
"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."
"There were a few goofy things with support where we were trying to do OS upgrades and HPE MyRoom failed. However, they would not get on WebEx because they are only allowed to get on HPE MyRoom."
"HPE could improve by making an old flash system in order to compete with the current market. For the solution to be more competitive in the mid-range market they could increase the performance."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
"The cloud-based monitoring Infosight would be better if users are automatically enrolled in the cloud/group based on the configuration or information gathered or uploaded on the internet."
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"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."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
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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