We performed a comparison between CLARiiON CX4 series [EOL] and Dell EqualLogic PS 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)."Service from EMC was extremely good. Whenever a disk had a problem, EMC was right on top of it. In some instances, they called me before I even knew what was going on."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"The technical support for the solution was really good."
"The technical support is very good."
"We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"The solution can scale."
"The technical support for EqualLogic has been universally outstanding."
"It is stable and scalable."
"It needs better deduplication. Deduplication was costing too many resources, hence we never used it."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve the performance because in our hybrid configuration the read speed is faster than the write speed."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"Synchronous replication uses space inefficiently."
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
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CLARiiON CX4 series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) while Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 reviews. CLARiiON CX4 series [EOL] is rated 6.0, while Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CLARiiON CX4 series [EOL] writes "It worked fine and was very reliable, though the throughput tended to be a bit slow". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell EqualLogic PS series writes "Allows peer-to-peer cloning of storage volume and helps users with hardware replication mechanism". CLARiiON CX4 series [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA.
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