We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Panasas ActiveStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days."
"The most valuable feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"After being properly configured, it has been a very stable product."
"The solution offers good stability."
"The solution fetches quick responses in milliseconds which can be within 40-50 milliseconds."
"The stability is what we consider to be the best feature it provides. The stability of this solution is what conquers us, every day."
"Whatever failures you have, there is no single point of failure. So, any failure, you get an alert, you have time, you plan the fix, the replacement, and so on. So your operations are intact."
"From a single panel, I can see the performance of my service, my network, and my storage."
"We've found the product to be quite flexible."
"I am impressed with the tool's performance and bandwidth."
"Here in Algeria, we are facing a lot of trouble finding partners and getting support from HPE. There should be better support here in our country."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"The engagement of the tool's vendor is costly."
"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."
"From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us."
"During the initial setup, it was a bit complex in the wiring of the cages."
"We need additional enhancements to InfoSight, especially from a VM standpoint. Today, we can see in the Azure VM performance stats in 3PAR, but it is so huge, we can't just drill down on each and every VM and look at its performance."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is at its end of life and they are forcing us to purchase new hardware. They will no longer support this solution. They should provide support for a longer time. For example, 10 years instead of five years."
"We have received complaints from customers that the tool is not easy to use. The tool's local technical service is slow. The solution is good for Linux customers and not for customers with other operating systems like Windows. The solution should provide storage without client software integration."
"The solution is quite expensive."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while Panasas ActiveStor is ranked 14th in NAS with 2 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Panasas ActiveStor is rated 9.0. 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 Panasas ActiveStor writes "A stable solution with good performance and bandwidth". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas Panasas ActiveStor is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and NetApp FAS Series.
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