The next generation of Dell EqualLogic is Dell PowerStore.

It is meaningless for me to advise those planning to buy the solution since no one can buy it anymore. Personally, I recommend the solution to others. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.

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The Dell EqualLogic PS series is an obsolete solution.

The solution does not take a lot of maintenance and can be done by one person.

I rate the Dell EqualLogic PS series an eight out of ten.

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I am satisfied with it. It works very fine for our purpose, and its performance is enough for our needs. It is not very fast. It is not delivering the best performance, but it is okay for us.

I would rate it a nine out of 10.

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The advice that I would you give to others looking into implementing the Dell EqualLogic PS Series is a bit dependent on whether or not I ignore the end-of-life of the product. If it were still a current product line, I would maybe give it C-rating only because of what is currently available and how the current capabilities of other products have surpassed EqualLogic in technological advancement. EqualLogic is really not going to be relevant in the marketplace too much longer.  

Having something with onboard deduplication is extremely valuable and also getting the latency down makes a difference for this kind of solution. Knowing what you need as far as features to take care of your situation is important before making decisions as to what to go with.  

On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate the Dell EqualLogic PS Series as probably a seven-out-of-ten. This would be based on current utility and ignoring that it is being phased out.  

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For people considering EqualLogic, the most useful thing I could tell them was that they should implement a demo using a piece of equipment in a proof-of-concept environment and have the vendor help with that. It is the most ideal way to test the product.  

On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate the EqualLogic PS Series overall as definitely a nine-out-of-ten. I would give it that rating because it does what it says it is supposed to do. It has been extremely reliable and very easy to upgrade and expand. In the past when Dell announced they were going to pull the line, all the customers called up and objected. They actually wanted to buy more boxes. Because of the response from the customers, Dell postponed the end-of-life of the product a few times.  

A lot of people use the product and it is a workhorse. Reliability is key, especially in my particular usage for them. The performance is there, and they probably are over-specced. By that I mean the capacity of the product exceeds what we need it to do. As to reliability, having just four drives failing in the span of six or seven years is phenomenal. It is closer to being unheard of. If they were to fix a few of those minor issues that could possibly bring my rating of the product up closer to a 10, but I do not want to give somebody a ten because they just can not possibly do everything right. If you give them that impression they will just stop improving it.  

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We are resellers.

If a company is looking for any hard workload or anything like that, for example, if they want to run only specific amounts and things like that, then they can go with EqualLogic. However, if they want to put some heavy load on the system, then they should go with Nimble.

I'd rate the solution at a five out of ten, as it's not as powerful as I would like it to be.

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We are customers and end-users of Dell products. We just have an account that we've used and we've done business with them for years.

The solution has been discontinued by Dell for four, five years. Therefore, it's not exactly up-to-date. We couldn't update it if we wanted to. They don't make it anymore. It's not something a company can just buy.

In general, we have been very happy with the product. I would rate it at an eight out of ten.

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Dell EqualLogic PS series that we have is at its end of life and we are replacing it soon.

My advice to others is this is a good product.

I rate the Dell EqualLogic PS series an eight out of ten.

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We're just customers. We don't have a business relationship with Dell. 

We're working with model PS 4100.

While this is an older model, and technically no longer available, Dell does have other great models that are very useful. I'd definitely recommend this solution is the environment was the right fit.

In general, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

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Dell EqualLogic PS series was at its end of life and was replaced by Compellent, and Compellent will be at its end-of-life soon.

I would recommend others to choose Compellent because it is much better than the Dell EqualLogic PS series and is the next step in evolution.

I rate the Dell EqualLogic PS series a ten out of ten.

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I would give this solution an eight out of 10. It's pretty straightforward most of the time, and tech support is there when it's not straightforward. I'm giving them a knock for having had that string of hardware problems.

The biggest hangup for us was knowing how much disk translates into how much actual space you have, when you're done doing the setup.

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I have been using Equallogic arrays for myself and my customers for over seven years now, and they continue to be my gold standard for SMB storage. In my years of using these arrays, I continue to be impressed with their products, performance, configurations, and support. View full review »

a. Equallogic PS series arrays are the best suited storage platform for mid to high level enterprises. b. Cost of acquisition may seem to be higher but TCO is lower when compared for the high capacity deployments for virtualized environment. c. A very easy to use interfaces and easy to use wizard based configuration. d. PS Series comes with embedded 24x7 supports from Dell to ensure zero system downtime. View full review »

It's now end-of-life, end of support, so we're shopping around for a replacement. With all this technology, they only have a lifespan of three to five years and then new features and new functionality come along. New speed. The new ones perform at much faster speed, so you have to change everything often.

I'd give the EqualLogic solution a seven out of 10. It is an entry-level SAN for the enterprise. We're a small business. The price point was good for us and it's scalable; we could buy as many modules as we need, as we grow. They work together. The management of it is good but it can't go higher than a seven because, like I say, it's entry-level. It doesn't have all the functionality and features of some of the more expensive ones. But again, based on the budgets we have to work with, it was the best we could afford.

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Be sure the product is suitable, the warranty is guaranteed, and technically, use a disk (RAID) calculator for sizing.

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Do not go for EQL. It will be out of production in a few years. Dell EMC Unity is a much better option for price, performance, and safety.

If you don't have alternatives, management should be fired! But seriously, you need to have very good control of your workload and IOPS. Which data cause random reads, sequential reads, random writes, sequential writes, etc. And you need to build your environment. The workload needs to be separated in VMs on different disks which touch different data stores and SAN environments.

Our relationship with Dell EMC is very good. Dell has always been a good hardware vendor and are really good at it. They are also good in local storage in, for example, their MD series. Really good!

They could not make the SAN part in EQL and Compellent. Maybe that was the reason Dell bought EMC.

We are also using Dell F10 which provides quite good performance. Hardware is the same as Cisco, but there are some downs with their software. F10 doesn't have any control over some packages, such as pause frames. The switch will try to send those packages to all ports. So if you have activate flow control, you need to turn off RX or TX or the switch will flood all the ports with "unknown" packages.

In the end. We will replace all EQLs with Dell EMC Unity. We have not upgraded EQL after 7.1.8, which is quite stable, because firmware upgrades cause us alot of trouble.

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