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."It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"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."
"The product is very stable."
"The technical support is very good."
"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"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."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"The support is very good."
"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."
"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."
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"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."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"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."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The biggest issue we face is parts delivery. There's no local warehouse in Myanmar, so if a customer encounters a technical problem like an IMEI issue, they have to wait a long time for replacement parts."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"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."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"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."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 3 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 1st in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 19 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 "Useful auto tiering, excellent support, and highly reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, 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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