We performed a comparison between NetApp FAS Series and Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array 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."Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"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."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"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."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"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."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
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NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is ranked 30th in All-Flash Storage. NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8, while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array writes "Good support, improves performance, scales well, and boosts team efficiency". NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is most compared with Pure FlashArray X NVMe. See our NetApp FAS Series vs. Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array report.
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