We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Dell EqualLogic PS series auto tiering by using this feature, the customer can get higher performance on a valuable budget."
"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"The solution can scale."
"The technical support for the solution was really good."
"IBM FlashSystem has been stable in our operations."
"The speed and the ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"Virtualization of external storage, while adding cache and speed to the external storage."
"IBM FlashSystem is the best solution for storage virtualization."
"The performance monitoring feature is useful as it can report in 15 minute intervals by hour, day, week, month, or by a custom date range."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is compression."
"The speed, performance, and stability are the best features of IBM FlashSystem."
"6510 and 6610 have two iSCSI connections in each controller. Why do 6110xxx members have only one, and why do the same members have the possibility of having an active iSCSI interface in the passive controller? It could make a lot of noise with a failover."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"It is at the end of support and no longer supported. We have to move our VMware to another storage platform, and we have decided to use Dell PowerStore. We like Dell's products, and it is a new platform with a lot of features."
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"I can't buy any more solutions provided by EqualLogic...Since I can't buy it anymore, I don't receive any updates on the solution. Also, this is the last year in which one can buy support for the solution."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"The solution is not able to replicate data in one-to-many scenario."
"The ease of installation should be improved. We had issues with the configuration model."
"The GUI for monitoring performance metrics could provide better visibility. For example, it doesn't let me segregate the IOPS per volume."
"With regards to the IBM V7000 storage system, where we have multiple tiers of storage, a heat map would show I/O distribution across the tiers of storage."
"The solution is not easy to implement. It takes a lot of time to study the product and it's a little complicated in general."
"Events/log analysis tools."
"The Data Reduction Pools (DRP) support could be better."
"The solution's infrastructure technology level could be PCI Express 5 instead of PCI Express 4 for the next version."
Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 2nd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 106 reviews. Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell EqualLogic PS series writes "Allows peer-to-peer cloning of storage volume and helps users with hardware replication mechanism". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF. See our Dell EqualLogic PS series vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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