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 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 most valuable feature of this solution is migration without disruptions."
"It provides a high availability and will increase the performance of any server or operating system."
"The solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy."
"OS-aware multipathing is a valuable feature of the product."
"The product is very reliable."
"We have found the solution to be quite flexible and very scalable."
"The user interface is good."
"I love the replication technologies which keep a customer out of risk. At any time, we can do a seamless failover/failback, and have the latest data on it. The SnapVault is another excellent feature. It's used for remote disk-based backups so we don't need to depend on tape backups with their long restore times."
"The performance of the hardware is good."
"There is a faster release cycle now. Also, they are doing all types of cool stuff in their cloud volumes, replication, and tiering."
"Clustered ONTAP makes it very easy to manage large amounts of data, measured in petabytes. One person can manage all that."
"ONTAP has improved my organization by lowering budget costs. Deduplication, compression, compaction, SnapMirror, SnapWall, the transaction happens from one to the other. It's serving our needs just as expected."
"They always have new solutions for their customers. They also have good integration with other partners like Microsoft, VMware, and Oracle."
"It's more intuitive to use as they are moving away from command line into more graphical interfaces, which are somewhat easier to use."
"From a storage standpoint, NetApp is the number one partner and the number one equipment manufacturer."
"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 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 should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."
"The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks."
"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."
"Technical support is hit or miss sometimes. Level 1 support is not very good. Level 2 and Level 3 (the escalation support) are very good. They are knowledgeable people, but sometimes you get some hiccup in the Level 1 support. After you pass Level 1, it is smooth sailing. There is a lot of room for improvement."
"Technical support is good but they can take some time on critical problems."
"While the data efficiency features are great, I want to see more efficiency and compression type of technology."
"The setup can be a bit complex, depending on the environment."
"I believe that the next release should be a bit cheaper."
"I could see the GUI being a little bit more refined, the presentation layer being a little stronger, a little less sluggish."
"The lack of an API is a big thing for us that needs to be improved. It needs proper API support."
"In Africa, especially in West Africa, NetApp doesn't chat with their customers. Therefore, we always have to go through the local partners or vendors."
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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