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 solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"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."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"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."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Stability is awesome. Its performance has been steady and it stays up."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"The predictive analytics, where we're getting notifications prior to a failure has been helpful."
"I like that it's stable. This is the reason why we're using these products. We work in the broadcast market, and stability is very important. HPE has global services, and that's also important. Dell and HPE are some big companies, and their solutions are robust and stable."
"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 most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"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."
"Feature-wise, with the InfoSight additions, there is a lot of the stuff missing in the intelligent interface. As they grow and push, a lot of it will not tie into Hyper-V."
"We have had some challenges in the Arabic implementation and in migration, but for daily work, it's fine."
"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."
"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 solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"The WAFL is slow."
"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 high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"Needs more SAN support."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
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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