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 most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"It's actually very stable"
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"You can have SSD drives, fast disk drives, and slower drives, redundancy between drives, and hot-swappable drives on the SSDs, the faster hard drives, and the slower drives."
"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."
"We're using the all-flash arrays and, with the deduplication and compression, it just really fits our virtualization environment very well."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use, fully featured and has a great graphical user interface."
"I do not have to worry about cross systems talking to each other or multiple systems trying to interact with each other. Our entire vCenter infrastructure is one large stack, which is nice."
"It is easy to manage and performs very well."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"It offers data compression and people management."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"The solution is stable."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"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."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"A lot of tasks, you have to manually set up. They need to already have them set up and working. Then, you can just go in and tweak them if you need to."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. There were a lot of different things that had to happen which was the reason why they had to send out the HPE engineers to help us."
"It's a very complex platform to manage and it's not cheap either. It doesn't really give us the level of flexibility we had for very, very small workloads."
"I would like to see a little bit more integration from a cloud perspective. In this way, I would have some more flexibility to do more with data, how to store it, and where I have it."
"There are some weird things that we can't figure out."
"As long as they can keep the solution stable, it will be good. Stability is very important to us."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"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 is costly when compared to Dell."
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 IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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