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."Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The scalability is good."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"We like something called Virtual Volumes and how we can do thin provisioning."
"I benefit from the HPE Call Home feature. It tells me about any issue once I have it."
"We have been able to back up our data more frequently now that we have everything on flash. It responds a lot faster, so the IOPs are a lot faster."
"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 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."
"We have been able to scale faster and get our applications out in much less time. We don't need to worry about the platform's ability to manage the workload, so we are pretty happy."
"It runs. I don't have a problem with it. If it needs an update, I can do it in the middle of the day with nobody being the wiser. It is phenomenal in that respect. As a hospital, I get two hours every quarter to reboot things, so it is imperative that nothing goes down."
"It provides very fast deployment. The performance for our most critical applications is very quick."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"The support is very good."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"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."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"Sadly, the support from HPE has not been all that great. It is tough to get a tech out or get a response from some of the techs that we have."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"In the next release, I would like them to make it a little easier to find where everything is in the new console. It now has the OneView look and sometimes I don't think the OneView look is enough. It's too different from the original console that was a separate system."
"The availability of technical resources within HPE is becoming a challenge due to availability."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"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."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
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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