We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."The solution has been working well overall."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"The most valuable feature is the tight VMware integration, due to the migration from bare metal to virtualized environments and then on to the cloud."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"One of the best features of the VNX is the ability to combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool. By combining small but fast flash drives, SAS drives, and high-capacity but slower NL-SAS drives, the VNX can intelligently move data to the different tiers of storage based on usage."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"Integration with VMware"
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"The only challenging part in the tool was related to some site recovery area. In order to exploit the site recovery area, my company had to purchase additional VMware products."
"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."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve by providing fiber channel connectivity. Fiber channel connectivity is not supported, which is a requirement of advanced applications, such as SAP HANA. SAP HANA recommends fiber channel connectivity, but the Dell EqualLogic PS series is only an ISCSI data storage."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"If I need to have more space or more capacity, I need to replace the product. It would be ideal if we could scale without replacing the box itself."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing."
"Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
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Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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