We performed a comparison between Dell EqualLogic PS series and NEC D3 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)."The solution can scale."
"Dell's technical support is very good."
"The product is very stable."
"Its high availability. It has a lot of redundancy and good management software as well as good alerting."
"The most valuable feature of Dell EqualLogic PS series auto tiering by using this feature, the customer can get higher performance on a valuable budget."
"The technical support for the solution was really good."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series is a highly stable solution."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The performance is better than with our previous version."
"There is no inline deduplication capability."
"There is no option for mixing RAID types in one device."
"The only challenging part in the tool was related to some site recovery area. In order to exploit the site recovery area, my company had to purchase additional VMware products."
"The performance isn't as good as, for example, Nimble."
"Dell EqualLogic PS series could improve by providing fiber channel connectivity. Fiber channel connectivity is not supported, which is a requirement of advanced applications, such as SAP HANA. SAP HANA recommends fiber channel connectivity, but the Dell EqualLogic PS series is only an ISCSI data storage."
"It is at the end of support and no longer supported. We have to move our VMware to another storage platform, and we have decided to use Dell PowerStore. We like Dell's products, and it is a new platform with a lot of features."
"The product is reaching the end-of-lifecycle."
"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."
"We are not satisfied with the cost of licensing and would like to have a better price to performance ratio."
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Dell EqualLogic PS series is ranked 7th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network) with 18 reviews while NEC D3 series is ranked 21st in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). Dell EqualLogic PS series is rated 8.0, while NEC D3 series is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell EqualLogic PS series writes "Allows peer-to-peer cloning of storage volume and helps users with hardware replication mechanism". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NEC D3 series writes "Stable, performs well, and the technical support is good". Dell EqualLogic PS series is most compared with HPE StorageWorks MSA, whereas NEC D3 series is most compared with .
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