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."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"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."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"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."
"It is extremely reliable."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"The solution is easy to use."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"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."
"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"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"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."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"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 3 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 1st in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 19 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 "Useful auto tiering, excellent support, and highly reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, 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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