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 initial setup was really straight forward."
"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."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers."
"It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick."
"Scalability is incredible. We have a single server cabinet today, but we can grow it to as many cabinets as we need."
"Its snapshot capability is the most valuable feature, because replicate our databases from production to nonproduction for development. This allows us to do it very quickly."
"We have had it for about two years and had zero problems with it."
"Multi-tier storage was the primary reason that we bought it. I also love the interface that you use for administering it."
"You can scale it out almost indefinitely."
"The solution is stable."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"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 to see more cloud integration."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"I would like to see compatibility with NVMe."
"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."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
"The price of this solution should be lower."
"We have had some challenges in the Arabic implementation and in migration, but for daily work, it's fine."
"I give it an eight because of the support, that I can't get support in my country. This is the worst part. Support cannot be sold until we are out of the sanctions."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"The WAFL is slow."
"The user interface could be improved."
"Needs more SAN support."
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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