We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and NEC D3 series 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)."Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"It is stable and scalable."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"The performance is better than with our previous version."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"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"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"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."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."
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Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 reviews while NEC D3 series is ranked 21st in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while NEC D3 series is rated 9.0. 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 NEC D3 series writes "Stable, performs well, and the technical support is good". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas NEC D3 series is most compared with .
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