We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"The technical support for EqualLogic has been universally outstanding."
"The technical support is very good."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"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."
"Having moved over from a lefthand, which was seven or eight years old, there's a massive boost in performance. It has definitely improved the speed, the responsiveness, of all our applications."
"The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"Our applications are now at least two to four times faster."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has a good interface, it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"Its stability is the most valuable. It has soft alerts. When an alert is raised, we get a call from HP saying that there is this type of alert, and they need to do a remote session to check things. Similarly, for firmware updates, they get in touch to say that a firmware upgrade is required on your storage. They schedule a time and take control remotely to upgrade the firmware. In all such cases, there is no downtime. Everything is done when a full-fledged operation is going on. Its user interface is also quite good. We are quite accustomed to this user interface. We can easily take a look at the current usage or the amount of storage. It is quite easily understandable, and I can present those things to my seniors or other people who are not that tech-savvy, and they can easily understand what we are trying to tell them. We can easily show them that we are using around 87% of the storage, so we need to plan for another tree and things like that."
"The optimization features move chunklets or hot spots to faster drives."
"It has helped with more than just serving data, but also with recovery."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"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 migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"The solution is stable."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"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."
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"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."
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"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."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"HPE gives you how to get everything going, but it would be nice if they could go a little deeper sometimes. That is always the case: To get the value-add, you have to pay for those services."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"The replicating software is pretty complicated. I probably would have put it on a sequence."
"This solution only provides active-passive replication, as opposed to active-active."
"I would like to see improvement in the product's scalability. As a partner, I had serious problems because of the competition from Dell EMC and Pure."
"Setting up 3PAR is somewhat complicated, and it took about a week."
"HPE could improve by raising awareness when a new product is launched. They must think of ways to better serve and engage with their enterprise customers. HPE is selling enterprise products and mission-critical support."
"The cloud-based monitoring Infosight would be better if users are automatically enrolled in the cloud/group based on the configuration or information gathered or uploaded on the internet."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
