We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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)."Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"The technical support is very good."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"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."
"When we bought it, the big sell for us was what they called "wide striping", how they striped the data and could get performance on a cheaper disk. Nowadays, the newer models that are out, which we are going to in the next couple of years, the most valuable feature is mainly being able to achieve such high IOPS in such a small chassis."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"From a single panel, I can see the performance of my service, my network, and my storage."
"The deduplication is pretty impressive because it will shrink. We also do some clones in addition to the snapshots, where we can have multiple clones. These reduce the actual written storage by as much as 50 percent."
"Scalability is incredible. We have a single server cabinet today, but we can grow it to as many cabinets as we need."
"It is fast and stable. It is really helping us a lot in terms of data store, etc."
"I do not have to worry about cross systems talking to each other or multiple systems trying to interact with each other. Our entire vCenter infrastructure is one large stack, which is nice."
"The availability of the server has given us increased stability in our environment."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"It has enterprise data services with consolidated storage data protection and disaster recovery. One valuable aspect is its efficiency as a robust platform. There is an ease of managing all processes. The data recovery process is remarkably fast. It’s a stable solution. The product is scalable. It provides high-speed live migration capability."
"The fact that there is only one interface to deploy a complete solution for maximum storage is fantastic."
"Its most valuable feature is simplicity. It is so easy to use. Upgrades are easy. It is easy in terms of disaster recovery, failover, database provisioning, and reporting. Everything about it is just simple."
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"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."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"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."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"The product is quite expensive."
"The solution could be improved in regard to space reclamation by adding automation."
"It needs the addition of InfoSight, which is the most critical, along with predictive analytics and AI."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"The Unified Multiprotocol Access to the storage array needs to be improved."
"I'd really it to be able to interact with older 3PAR storage, and possibly even non-HPE. I would like to be able to pull stuff off of old things and bring it up to the standard that has been set, simply, quickly, and efficiently. That would be a really nice feature. Right now it is a big pain. It seems to work but we tend to get some latency behind."
"From an overall perspective, all the latest technologies can improve support and performance. This is very important for us."
"3PAR needs to keep on increasing its capacity."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"The technology has a lot of room for improvement. For example, when they want to segment applications in conjunction with NSX, which VMware uses, Acropolis is not compatible with the competitors. The integration in the security layer is not compatible with NSX for the application segmentation that uses VMware."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
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