We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and IBM FlashSystem 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 technical support for EqualLogic has been universally outstanding."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"The technical support for the solution was really good."
"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."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"The product is very stable."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is compression."
"This solution is really user friendly. It also offers good performance and is highly reliable."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"I like most of the features. Its speed, performance, and availability are valuable. We are implementing the data reduction technology the most."
"The most valuable feature is reliability."
"The speed, performance, and stability are the best features of IBM FlashSystem."
"User friendly management interface."
"The power systems are very reliable if you are running 24/7 operations. For ongoing mission-critical applications, it's the best solution."
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"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."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"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."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"Enterprise data storage needs improvement. They should create a feature for data and file storage."
"I think the only thing the developers can look at, is that it is limited to 25 gigabytes currently. In the next release they might want to increase that."
"We use some open-source tools for monitoring, such as Grafana and it should be bundled along with IBM FlashSystem."
"A big area for improvement is that the data reduction pool feature is not recommended for use in a production environment because it has stability and performance issues."
"The pricing needs to be more competitive."
"It is slightly more expensive, however, it all depends on your supplier."
"This solution could be improved by offering greater amounts of storage."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 2nd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 106 reviews. Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. 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 IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell EqualLogic PS series vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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