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 product is very stable."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"The technical support is very good."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"It is extremely reliable."
"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"For us, the greatest aspect of the solution is the fact that it just runs. It is amazingly resilient. That's very important to us, because we are basically, with some exceptions, have a 24/7 operation."
"The product is flexible."
"The SnapMirror is a good tool because, as long as you're going NetApp to NetApp, it's ultimately the fastest way to move data. We replicate everything to another site for disaster recovery."
"It's an easy product to use that is stable and has good performance."
"The solution is stable."
"It offers data compression and people management."
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"The searchable online documentation is missing."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"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."
"The only challenging part in the tool was related to some site recovery area. In order to exploit the site recovery area, my company had to purchase additional VMware products."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"The one aspect of the solution that's negative for us is also more unique to us due to the fact that we did a MetroCluster. The tiebreaker piece that does the monitoring of the two different locations, and determines if one is not talking to the network normally (or if it's truly down) is a little difficult. It feels like it was not designed from the beginning to fit well into the other pieces. It feels like it was thrown in at the last minute and it is not smooth."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"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."
Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 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 "Allows peer-to-peer cloning of storage volume and helps users with hardware replication mechanism". 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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