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 is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"Multi-tier storage was the primary reason that we bought it. I also love the interface that you use for administering it."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"Any action we want to do with a Dell EMC product needs a license. But with 3PAR's converged solution, at least there is no need to purchase more licenses to get the all the features that we need. We can get basic and mid-range features without licenses."
"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."
"The product lasts a very long time without having to be replaced. It's had a very long life."
"The solution has increased our performance by about 40 percent."
"The intelligence around the solution is good."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"Fast Snapshots"
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"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 configuration and flexibility should improve."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"Sadly, the support from HPE has not been all that great. It is tough to get a tech out or get a response from some of the techs that we have."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"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."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"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."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"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."
"Needs more SAN support."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 12 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 19 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "Reliable with a good user interface and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". 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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