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."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"It is extremely reliable."
"The technical support for the solution was really good."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"The product is very stable."
"We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"Fast Snapshots"
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"The support is very good."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"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."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"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"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"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."
"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 product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"The product must support more drives."
"They should add new features to the product."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 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 "Allows peer-to-peer cloning of storage volume and helps users with hardware replication mechanism". 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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