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 most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"It is easy to scale, easy to manage, and easy to configure."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"After being properly configured, it has been a very stable product."
"We built a DR solution based on this, we can sustain our business for any amount of time, 24/7."
"When we bought it, the big sell for us was what they called "wide striping", how they striped the data and could get performance on a cheaper disk. Nowadays, the newer models that are out, which we are going to in the next couple of years, the most valuable feature is mainly being able to achieve such high IOPS in such a small chassis."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"Fast Snapshots"
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"It needs to improve its price."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"if it were easier for us to manage the product ourselves without having to get HPE to connect, because it sometimes it does take a bit to get the scheduling worked out with the HPE support. If it were simpler, then it might be easier for us to handle it ourselves."
"Integration with some cloud services would be nice... We would like to be able to provision from the 3PAR and decide whether or not we are going to provision onsite or the cloud."
"I would like to see more flexibility with the cloud. I've actually just been in a presentation about it, here at HPE Discover 2018, so those features are coming."
"I would like to see an automatic re-balancing system or functionality for adaptive optimization."
"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."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"The biggest issue we face is parts delivery. There's no local warehouse in Myanmar, so if a customer encounters a technical problem like an IMEI issue, they have to wait a long time for replacement parts."
"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."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"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 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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