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."It provides a high availability and will increase the performance of any server or operating system."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration without disruptions."
"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."
"The product is very reliable."
"OS-aware multipathing is a valuable feature of the product."
"The user interface is good."
"We have found the solution to be quite flexible and very scalable."
"The solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy."
"With ONTAP, we have peace of mind with double-parity protector RAID systems. Therefore, we can sleep well at the night, not thinking about crashing a RAID, because it's secure."
"There is a faster release cycle now. Also, they are doing all types of cool stuff in their cloud volumes, replication, and tiering."
"It's more intuitive to use as they are moving away from command line into more graphical interfaces, which are somewhat easier to use."
"It's extremely reliable, very easy to manage. I've been able to reduce the number of people I have managing the storage systems because of the software."
"It is very easy to scale, so we started with a four-node cluster and added it to a six-node cluster. We've also done some other modifications in between."
"We can recover data quickly. We are able to failover to remote sites. We can do that within minutes."
"We have been able to save about 10 to 15% on space using the space consumption features."
"Scalability is perfectly fine. Right now I only have the two nodes and one shelf. I'll be able to easily upgrade additional shelves. They gave me plenty of cabling when I got the unit so all I have to do is disconnect and reconnect the cabling and that's it."
"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."
"The technical support is good but they are not available all the time."
"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."
"Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux."
"The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."
"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 product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks."
"Sometimes, we face problems with support."
"The config could be a little easier. It's not entirely difficult, but it could be a somewhat easier. I have seen other vendors make it easier."
"Scalability is a bit of a question. If we're only doing file-based storage, scalability is fantastic. If we are doing block-based storage through iSCSI or Fibre Channel, there are some significant limitations in the number of volumes and clients that you can put on a single data ONTAP cluster."
"The vendor diagnostics, which allows for movement from one vendor to another vendor using the application technology that is available. It should be able to talk to any vendor, not just NetApp to NetApp. We should be able to replicate the data, so the next feature should not be vendor specific."
"The price could be lower."
"It's very expensive."
"I would like to see more S3 integration with other vendors, objects, or instruments."
"Technical support is good but they can take some time on critical problems."
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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