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 GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated."
"It is easy to use and understand. It is also very stable."
"The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the native full mesh (multi-pathing)."
"The new StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) tool is more user-friendly."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"I am impressed with the product's online upgrades."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"The price should be lower."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"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."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"The setup was complex from the perspective of the employees having to go through five days of training. If they simplified the administrative process of maintaining the unit, that would go a long way."
"It's a little bit difficult to figure out where the capacity is used. There is deduplication that, of course, saves space, but it sometimes it's hard to find out where the space is used. If you delete something, do you get it back? So it's not very transparent regarding capacity."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see faster upgrades, where it's really transparent to our host and our end-users."
"...sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected."
"We would like to see dedupe and compression allowed on all drive types."
"It's a very complex platform to manage and it's not cheap either. It doesn't really give us the level of flexibility we had for very, very small workloads."
"An area of improvement for this solution is an increase in the bandwidth as well as an upgrade of the storage functionality and capabilities. The storage needs to be expandable for future-proofing."
"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."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
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 IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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