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."The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"This solution is very scalable."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"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."
"We can do more, faster, whether it's spinning up more virtual machines or handling large amounts of data."
"The ease of management is its most valuable feature. It is so much easier to manage storage on a 3PAR array than anything that we have had before."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"3PAR is different from other storage solutions because it uses a chunklet when we initiate the storage. Every disk is submitted as a 1 GB chunklet. This chunklet can be RAID 1, 4, 5, or 6. This fabulous feature is very useful for me because I can distribute the RAID for any volume. The adaptive optimization is the biggest feature in 3PAR. 3PAR is very usable with thin volume because it detects zeros while writing. Every time I tell the hypervisor to make the full provisioning, it makes the volume as simple provisioning in 3PAR, not full provisioning. Other vendors take this volume as thick provisioning because of which the capacity is reached quickly. It doesn't happen in 3PAR because it detects zeros. It only writes the data, and it doesn't write zeros. There are two processors in 3PAR: the ASIC processor and the main processor. The ASIC processor detects zero writing and doesn't write it, which is a big feature in 3PAR."
"We use for our tier one and two apps, so they can do failover, synchronous replication."
"With the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, we can grow as required."
"It provides multi-protocol, which is what gives the edge when it comes to big lineage PC workloads."
"Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features."
"The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"The benefits are better up-time, better response time."
"The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"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."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"There were a few goofy things with support where we were trying to do OS upgrades and HPE MyRoom failed. However, they would not get on WebEx because they are only allowed to get on HPE MyRoom."
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"I would like to see more cloud-based integrations and more file storage capabilities."
"HPE has a product that I am very interested in, but it lacks of integration with 3PAR - HPE SimpliVity."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"I would like to see compatibility with NVMe."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
"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."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
"There could be an improvement when it comes to SLA support, it could be faster."
"It was difficult to implement and lacks some additional features that would be useful, but as a solution fits a particular need for our organization."
"The only major drawback is the replication between EF-Series units."
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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 IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, 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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