We performed a comparison between Dell PowerPath and NetApp ONTAP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that disaster recovery scenarios are very good and easy to use in Dell PowerPath since it is available in a simplified form."
"We have found the solution to be quite flexible and very scalable."
"OS-aware multipathing is a valuable feature of the product."
"It provides a high availability and will increase the performance of any server or operating system."
"The solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy."
"The user interface is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration without disruptions."
"The product is very reliable."
"Today, because NetApp listened to their customers and improved their GUI, we can perform a firmware upgrade within minutes."
"SnapMirror is a good solution, because we can take our production data and replicate it over to our DR data center with minimal administrative effort, which is huge."
"They always have new solutions for their customers. They also have good integration with other partners like Microsoft, VMware, and Oracle."
"The stability of our ONTAP system has been awesome over the last four to five years, particularly with the software. The controls have been excellent as well. We recently went through a view of all of our systems and found a number of them had been up, over three years without any sort of reboots or downtime. We have been very happy with the stability of the systems."
"Scalability is good. Now that we have the ability to add more nodes to the cluster, it's better. It allows us to grill our clusters allowing them to be larger and faster, without having to buy a whole new system."
"You can scale it however you want, depending on your data center footprint."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is to be able to do multiple clusters on one pane of glass. We used to have to log on to each cluster per NetApp to view statistics on it or the logs if something was wrong. But now we can use ONTAP to view all the clusters and it shows us if something is full of space or not."
"The product is good at deduplication. Also, the new automation feature is good, as it saves us a lot of time."
"Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux."
"The technical support is good but they are not available all the time."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."
"While I utilize it for data migration, I would love to do that data migration in a GUI from an ease of use perspective."
"The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks."
"The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."
"Although PowerPath is very mature and has been on the market for more than 15 years there are still a lot of bugs that have been profiled with PowerPath, specifically, during any OS upgrade."
"Because most of us were new to the product, the initial setup was a bit cumbersome. Once we were trained, it was fine."
"The price could be lower."
"We would like to have additional cloud integration and the ability to Snapshot directly to Amazon. This would help us reduce costs, provide us additional disaster recovery, and give us a site that's not owned by us."
"The PowerShell scripting capabilities right now are all over the place as far as which rich operating systems are supported. They all support Windows, but the HCI product with the SolidFire integration also supports PowerShell on Mac and Linux. It would be nice if the rest of the NetApp APIs caught up with PowerShell on other operating systems besides Windows. Because we're deploying more non-Windows operating systems, it would be helpful if we would be able to use that utility."
"If the customer wants to integrate with another product they need deployment guides."
"The only thing that they have to improve in NetApp is that they're still relying on padding each node in active/active in CDOT. That has to go away. They should look at the scalability on a platform level. The computer will have that one file system with multiple nodes on it. If even one node fails, any node in that cluster could take over the functionalities. But today, it absolutely relies on that active-active uncoupling it. That needs to be improved in such a way that it would be one namespace. If this node goes down, any node in the cluster should take over and run that environment."
"It would be nice if they make it so that one can operate the console without the need for interface-related comments."
"I would like to see more in the public cloud space around things like object storage. A bit more granularity around how that gets deployed would be nice, but other than that I think they've got it nailed."
Dell PowerPath is ranked 3rd in Storage Software with 8 reviews while NetApp ONTAP is ranked 1st in Storage Software with 73 reviews. Dell PowerPath is rated 8.4, while NetApp ONTAP is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerPath writes "A resilient and reliable solution that has many load-balancing technologies and provides high availability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp ONTAP writes "The on-ramp for all things Netapp". Dell PowerPath is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, whereas NetApp ONTAP is most compared with DataCore SANsymphony, Azure NetApp Files, StorONE Storage-as-a-Service and Kodjin FHIR Server. See our Dell PowerPath vs. NetApp ONTAP report.
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