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 management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"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."
"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."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"We built a DR solution based on this, we can sustain our business for any amount of time, 24/7."
"All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform."
"It's reliable and it's fast."
"If it runs, and you don't know about it, that is the best thing that you can have in IT infrastructure. This is what 3PAR does for us."
"Scalability is incredible. We have a single server cabinet today, but we can grow it to as many cabinets as we need."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"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."
"File Persona can be better. I don't use File Persona because it has many problems with my environment. The antivirus that it has is not compatible with File Persona, and that's a big issue with File Persona. 3PAR is not as good as Dell when making a file in the storage. 3PAR for a block is very good, but when comparing row capacity, I get 14% capacity with 3PAR, but with Dell, I get 60% capacity."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"The GUI interface could be improved. I have been having trouble with one issue in particular. If you look at the DC and DR, if there is a communication break and the link went down—so the data is not replicating from DC to DR—there is no way to find out how much data is ready for transmission. Only the size of the data that needs to be transferred after the link comes up. If the firewall link is down, there is no way of seeing how much data is waiting to be transferred. This is a weak point of 3PAR."
"This solution is now at end-of-life."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"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."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"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."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the 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."
"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."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
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 and NetApp AFF, 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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