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."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"It is extremely reliable."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The product is flexible."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"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."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"Needs more SAN support."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
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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