We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The product is very stable."
"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."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"You can always trust it. It is stable."
"The maintenance service and support from IBM is very good."
"The performance of IBM FlashSystem is very good. The new technology and high throughput have given us more confidence in the solution. The management of the system has improved and we can control the monitoring system alerts and multiple FlashSystems with the Enterprise Cloud Edition, which is free. The migration of recently stored data to a new flash is much easier. You can move your data because you can utilize it externally."
"The most valuable features in IBM FlashSystem are IOPS, performance, duplication, and compression."
"The most valuable features are, of course, the virtualization of the storage, the performance, and the compression."
"High availability and enhanced security; Proven dependability; Data compression with hardware acceleration; Advanced copy services features are all in this product."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"This solution is very stable."
"Over the years, it has become increasingly user-friendly."
"The searchable online documentation is missing."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"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"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"6510 and 6610 have two iSCSI connections in each controller. Why do 6110xxx members have only one, and why do the same members have the possibility of having an active iSCSI interface in the passive controller? It could make a lot of noise with a failover."
"Individual file recovery would be a nice additional feature."
"The product needs to improve their scalability."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"When you provision a datastore auto-format takes a long time"
"The GUI for monitoring performance metrics could provide better visibility. For example, it doesn't let me segregate the IOPS per volume."
"The generic functionality of IBM FlashSystem, IBM always dismisses using file share or sharing protocols inside their storage hardware, and they only focus on the block-level storage."
"In IBM FlashSystem, data reduction is an area with shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"The solution's infrastructure technology level could be PCI Express 5 instead of PCI Express 4 for the next version."
"The data reduction pool feature sucks and is not recommended for use with heavy workloads."
Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 17 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 2nd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 106 reviews. Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. 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 FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell EqualLogic PS series vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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