We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and HPE 3PAR StoreServ 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 solution has been working well overall."
"The technical support for EqualLogic has been universally outstanding."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"The solution can scale."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"The technical support for the solution was really good."
"It is a stable solution."
"If you can handle the IOPS, throughput is a natural byproduct. Usually, IOPS is where you are capped. HPE has done a great job in making sure that our IOP-intensive EMRs stay up and running. We have really good performance on them."
"We know exactly the capacity that we need for the upcoming year, and it's much easier for us to enlarge the capacity and expose these disk volumes to the relevant servers."
"We're using the all-flash arrays and, with the deduplication and compression, it just really fits our virtualization environment very well."
"We're able to move things around with more agility. I can take it off one server and slap it on another in a couple of minutes... And the speed is outstanding."
"Scalability is incredible. We have a single server cabinet today, but we can grow it to as many cabinets as we need."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"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."
"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."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"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 product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"Upgrades on them are a bit tricky. For us to do a head swap on one is a full outer joiner storage frame, which is obviously not that easy to do in a production environment."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"I would like to have single click upgrades because the process is cumbersome right now."
"The tool is old."
"I need flexibility for interoperability across multiple platforms, not just HPE."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. There were a lot of different things that had to happen which was the reason why they had to send out the HPE engineers to help us."
"I would like them to improve it so I can do firmware upgrades without downtime."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 3rd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 299 reviews. Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. 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 HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StorageWorks MSA. See our Dell EqualLogic PS series vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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