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."If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"It is extremely reliable."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"The technical support is very good."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"It is stable and scalable."
"We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"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 solution is easy to use."
"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."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"The product is flexible."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"The searchable online documentation is missing."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"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."
"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."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
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 97 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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