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's technical support is very good."
"It is stable and scalable."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"The solution can scale."
"The technical support is very good."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"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 new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"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."
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"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."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"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."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"The WAFL is slow."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
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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