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 mobile app is very helpful."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good."
"It was straightforward, simple, and easy to set up, along with the OneView tools, for managing both compute and storage."
"We use all the features, but some of the most valuable are the replication, priority optimization, provisioning, and deduplication. There are a lot of good features in this product."
"The solution’s deduplication functionality works great. We are getting about a 16:1 dedupe ratio on our VM workloads."
"I like that 3PAR can remake the disk online. That's one of the best features because when we first started, that was the best. The team provisioning feature was also a good one. Those features are the best for me, provisioning and online optimization, and the tier you can have for storage."
"The predictive analytics, where we're getting notifications prior to a failure has been helpful."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario."
"Other products lose performance over time, but NetApp OS is speed-optimized."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The best feature is its ONTAP product line for Ransomware protection. It also has features for file storage and block storage. The solution is stable. We've had no issues with it. The tool is scalable and meets our requirements. The technical support and the supporting partner are great. The initial setup is straightforward. It is very easy to maintain the product. The feature set is excellent. I recommend the solution."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"It needs to improve its price."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"It was not proactive communication."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"The configuration and flexibility should improve."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"I would like to see improvement in the product's scalability. As a partner, I had serious problems because of the competition from Dell EMC and Pure."
"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."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
"Generally, the management of the multiple systems that we have is really the only problem, always having to go to all these separate tools to manage everything."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
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, 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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