We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and HPE 3PAR StoreServ 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."We were attracted by the flexibility of being able to put in a new shelf whenever we needed to, to expand."
"The technical support for EqualLogic has been universally outstanding."
"Technical support, when we had access to it, was very good."
"The product is very stable."
"It has contributed to the implementation of virtualization and all its benefits."
"The solution can scale."
"If you have one datacenter fail, the VMs will start to run inside the other data center."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The support is really fast. There is very good support for 3PAR storage."
"The deduplication is pretty impressive because it will shrink. We also do some clones in addition to the snapshots, where we can have multiple clones. These reduce the actual written storage by as much as 50 percent."
"It is very easy to manage. I can provision disks and monitor the performance easily."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution has increased our performance by about 40 percent."
"This system has been (by far) the easiest to use, manage, and expand."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"It was the easiest SAN that I have ever set up."
"The solution is out of date and the new version has a lot of advanced features."
"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."
"The replication efficiency needs to be improved."
"We need more space and we can't get any."
"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."
"Why is it not possible for both controllers to be simultaneously active (load balancing)?"
"The searchable online documentation is missing."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"Security is a mandatory feature because our customer needs to protect delicate information."
"if it were easier for us to manage the product ourselves without having to get HPE to connect, because it sometimes it does take a bit to get the scheduling worked out with the HPE support. If it were simpler, then it might be easier for us to handle it ourselves."
"This solution should be easier to use."
"I would like to see the ability to be able to migrate to newer versions of the 3PAR without having to take any of our data offline and be able to upgrade on the fly."
"We had a minor error when we were configuring this system, which initially detracted from its overall stability."
Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 17 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 3rd in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 299 reviews. Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. 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 HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StorageWorks MSA. See our Dell EqualLogic PS series vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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