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."Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"It is stable and scalable."
"We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"NAS stability"
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"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."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"The searchable online documentation is missing."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"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."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"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."
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"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 high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
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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