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."The technical support for EqualLogic has been universally outstanding."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The solution can scale."
"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."
"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."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"You can use different protocols at the same time. Monitoring is also very easy in NetApp FAS Series. There is a free tool for monitoring."
"The product is flexible."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"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."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"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"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."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."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"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."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"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."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
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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