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."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."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"The features which are most valuable are the availability of the system and the management."
"The solution is stable."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"The solution has increased our performance by about 40 percent."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage."
"The product is flexible."
"Fast Snapshots"
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"The price could be better."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ could have better integration into the cloud and converged infrastructure."
"We need additional enhancements to InfoSight, especially from a VM standpoint. Today, we can see in the Azure VM performance stats in 3PAR, but it is so huge, we can't just drill down on each and every VM and look at its performance."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"The onsite techs have caused outages."
"We are using a built-in solution in 3PAR. We are using All-Flash Storage, and there are some difficulties with it. HPE has now developed a new tool system to support All-Flash, and that's why we are changing our investment. They must increase its performance. I want unlimited support, which is very important for performance. I am not interested in spinning disks. HPE is developing new storage systems called Primera, but they must be developed more."
"Here in Algeria, we are facing a lot of trouble finding partners and getting support from HPE. There should be better support here in our country."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"The user interface could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The product should improve its user experience."
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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