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."Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"The technical support is very good."
"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."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"It offers data compression and people management."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"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."
"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 product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"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."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
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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