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."The most valuable feature of this solution is migration without disruptions."
"The product is very reliable."
"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 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."
"OS-aware multipathing is a valuable feature of the product."
"It provides a high availability and will increase the performance of any server or operating system."
"The deduplication is valuable."
"The initial setup and deployment were straightforward"
"From a storage standpoint, NetApp is the number one partner and the number one equipment manufacturer."
"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."
"Overall, for us, it's the stability, it has a solid infrastructure. It's easy to use, easy to rack and configure and start utilizing really quickly. It's been very stable, it works great, and it does everything we would want it to do."
"We have been using it for our entire environment, so we use it in file shares and in our VDI environment, at least for user data. That has reduced our user login times by about 50 percent."
"The solution has helped our organization reduce its overall cost of storage by allowing us to have multiple sites using the multi-tenant security model, segregated from each other, while at the same time using the same resources."
"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."
"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."
"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 solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."
"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."
"The technical support is good but they are not available all the time."
"Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux."
"The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I need to be able to validate how the host is performing from the storage, as I am concerned about the host performance and storage connectivity to the host."
"I would like to see Synchronize Snap mode in the next release."
"We would like to have additional cloud integration and the ability to Snapshot directly to Amazon. This would help us reduce costs, provide us additional disaster recovery, and give us a site that's not owned by us."
"Going forward, I want to see a simplified deployment and more straightforward recommendations on what is required for it."
"The toughest thing that we have right now is a cabling issue. There are so many that you need to connect."
"The only thing that they have to improve in NetApp is that they're still relying on padding each node in active/active in CDOT. That has to go away. They should look at the scalability on a platform level. The computer will have that one file system with multiple nodes on it. If even one node fails, any node in that cluster could take over the functionalities. But today, it absolutely relies on that active-active uncoupling it. That needs to be improved in such a way that it would be one namespace. If this node goes down, any node in the cluster should take over and run that environment."
"It should release more cloud-centric products as compared to some of its competitors. We would like it to have the ability to run or manage a solution in the cloud. This would allow us to migrate our data on-premise to off-premise in cloud solutions."
"We're at 9.3 so when we go to 9.5 we would like the synchronous SnapMirror because our users would like that, especially the ones that do the conveyor belt of data. We'd like that."
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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