We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"Support has been helpful."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The solution is very reliable."
"The compression is excellent."
"The PowerStore's compression ratio is even higher than the Unity system."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"Reliable, with comprehensive features and a well-established support base."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"The solution is stable."
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"The product is flexible."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"Automation could be simplified."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"Data reduction needs improvement."
"Could use some additional automation."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"The customer service and support are bad."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"The pricing could be lower. It is very expensive."
"PowerStore's management console could be improved."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"They should add new features to the product."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 34 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 4th in Deduplication Software with 16 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "Saves us power and floor space, and we can quickly assign new data stores for our developers' VMs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and NetApp AFF. See our Dell PowerStore vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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