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."You can always trust it. It is stable."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"It is stable and scalable."
"It is extremely reliable."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"The solution is stable."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"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 file sharing feature is most valuable."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"The searchable online documentation is missing."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
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 97 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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