We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and NetApp FAS Series 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."You can always trust it. It is stable."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"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."
"The technical support for EqualLogic has been universally outstanding."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"It is very flexible. It integrates well with the public cloud and other components, so everything can be API driven. Therefore, it is very easy to automate it."
"One of the most valuable features offered is double-parity RAID, which guarantees that your data will stay intact. We're also able to provision storage and monitor which ones are really consuming storage."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"We have some experience with older equipment end-of-life. For example, when warranty support stops or updates stop – it can be frustrating. Not all clients can buy a new filer every year or two, and NetApp ending support a bit quickly can be a concern."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 17 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 1st in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 98 reviews. Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell EqualLogic PS series writes "A highly scalable and astoundingly stable solution offering its users an extremely good technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell EqualLogic PS series vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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