We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."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 a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"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."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The technical support for the solution was really good."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"One of the best features of the VNX is the ability to combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool. By combining small but fast flash drives, SAS drives, and high-capacity but slower NL-SAS drives, the VNX can intelligently move data to the different tiers of storage based on usage."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"From my point of view, the configuration that I can sell is restricted to the EMC best practices. It is hard to make a mistake in a solution. It means the configuration has good performance and scalability options."
"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."
"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"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"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."
"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."
"Poor connection to FC."
"It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"There is an easy replication process between distinct data centers via VPLEX and/or RPA. But I hope in the future that EMC/Dell could replicate this with other types of storage."
"VNX can improve by offering flexible upgrade options. It's not possible to add a single HDD to a current array and there are fixed rules to make upgrades."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing."
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Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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