We performed a comparison between Hitachi NAS Platform and HPE 3PAR StoreServ 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 pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well."
"The product’s technical support services are good."
"Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload."
"The product has valuable features for data migration."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance."
"Simple and extremely reliable."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable."
"It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily."
"The speed is very good."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"The technical support is good."
"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 most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"The remote copy group failover is very useful and has helped us."
"Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface."
"I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive."
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."
"Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors."
"The monitoring tool is not well developed."
"I do not like Hitachi NAS because it's an old-school NAS solution, compared to the other, newer-type solutions such as Isilon from Dell or Qumulo."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"There are issues formulating the upgraded disk."
"I would like to have support for On-The-fly reallocation Data when using VVoL."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"HPE could improve by raising awareness when a new product is launched. They must think of ways to better serve and engage with their enterprise customers. HPE is selling enterprise products and mission-critical support."
"I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities."
Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 8 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews. Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 6.8, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "Good pricing and works well, but it is old-fashioned and should be replaced with something new". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), IBM FlashSystem and Qumulo, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StorageWorks MSA. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. Hitachi NAS Platform report.
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