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 most valuable feature of Dell EqualLogic PS series auto tiering by using this feature, the customer can get higher performance on a valuable budget."
"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"The solution can scale."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"The technical support for EqualLogic has been universally outstanding."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"It is very flexible. It integrates well with the public cloud and other components, so everything can be API driven. Therefore, it is very easy to automate it."
"The product is flexible."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."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."
"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 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."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"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."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could 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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