We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"This solution is very scalable."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The solution is easy to install."
"The most valuable features are their tight integration with VMware, their multi-node architecture, and their copy services, such as Peer Persistence."
"I am a system integrator, so we sell a lot of 3PAR storage to our customers. Our business has increased compared to previous days."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"They are using Ansible to automate the provisioning, so that simplifies the day-to-day operations."
"Very recently, we are able to do a lot of data center automation by being able to script some of the 3PAR actions for our private cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the uptime. It doesn't go down. You can do firmware updates on it, no issues."
"The Remote Copy Group is amazing for the replication stuff."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance of the database access."
"This storage solution is both stable and scalable, and it works for our needs."
"Some of the valuable features include MetroCluster switchover, in terms of disaster recovery, it is easy to use, and flexible."
"I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."
"The benefits are better up-time, better response time."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"File Persona can be better. I don't use File Persona because it has many problems with my environment. The antivirus that it has is not compatible with File Persona, and that's a big issue with File Persona. 3PAR is not as good as Dell when making a file in the storage. 3PAR for a block is very good, but when comparing row capacity, I get 14% capacity with 3PAR, but with Dell, I get 60% capacity."
"We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle larger data."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"With 3PAR, there is remote copy software which isn't very good."
"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."
"We have had some bad issues on stability."
"I would like to shrink it more, if we can. The smaller, the better."
"We need a center related to NetApp in Egypt so that we can deal with them directly."
"The only major drawback is the replication between EF-Series units."
"The initial setup phase of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is not straightforward and needs improvement."
"We have used IBM previously. We found that the storage from IBM was poor and we chose NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays because it can scale very easily."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
"Better integration with other brands is important so we would like to see it easier to integrate."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
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HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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