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."Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"This is a stable solution."
"It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"Provides High-Availability, security, and high performance"
"Stability is awesome. Its performance has been steady and it stays up."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has been stable."
"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."
"I like the speed capabilities that it provides. The deduplication features definitely have some huge potential. The latest firmware, where they've enabled compression for workloads that aren't very good for deduplication, I can definitely see huge potential there."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"The tool's most valuable features are ease of use, ease of access, expandability, availability, and performance. NVMe drives have improved their performance."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"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 would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"I would like to be able to deploy and manage 3PAR within OneView Global Dashboard so we do not have to use the interface for 3PAR."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"We would like to see the ability to not only be integrated with hybrid IT, but on-prem."
"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."
"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."
"The tool has low storage and low performance. This can be solved by adding more disco to the solution. The product’s pricing is also suited for enterprise businesses rather than smaller ones.I would like to see better performance, UI, and compatibility with other products in future releases."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"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."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
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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