We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and IBM XIV 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)."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."
"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"The solution can scale."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"The technical support is very good."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Hands down, this is the easiest storage platform on the market to manage."
"As it spreads, a chuck of 1MB across the board means using all available spindles on the backend."
"Very easy to produce reporting data (Snaps). Very easy and fast for provisioning devices and Remote mirroring."
"IBM XIV's most valuable features are NVME, especially when it comes to de-duplication, compression, and responsiveness."
"The performance and robustness of the systems are very good."
"Installation is amazingly easy."
"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."
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"The searchable online documentation is missing."
"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."
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"The change form synchronous mirroring to asynchronous (and vice versa) without reconfiguration from scratch would be helpful."
"IBM XIV's scalability is adequate for our requirements, but because it's modular, you can't scale to larger requirements."
"Until the drive is replaced, the pool_resizing is locked."
"I would rather have a web GUI served directly from the unit, and a CLI accessible directly through SSH."
"I encountered stability (performance) issues during enclosure or disk rebuild. Also some power supply issues due to malfunctions of circuits. Sometimes "internal" Snap sessions hang and consume pool capacity."
"This product was not a good fit for our organization as we have a ton of latency sensitive applications and XIV was not able to keep up with IO + latency demand."
Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 17 reviews while IBM XIV is ranked 10th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 6 reviews. Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while IBM XIV is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell EqualLogic PS series writes "A highly scalable and astoundingly stable solution offering its users an extremely good technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM XIV writes "Using it behind the SAN volume controller, latency is predictable and it is reliable". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas IBM XIV is most compared with IBM FlashSystem.
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