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."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"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."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"The product is very stable."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"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."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve by providing fiber channel connectivity. Fiber channel connectivity is not supported, which is a requirement of advanced applications, such as SAP HANA. SAP HANA recommends fiber channel connectivity, but the Dell EqualLogic PS series is only an ISCSI data storage."
"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."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"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."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"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."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"Needs more SAN support."
"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."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"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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