Dell PowerVault vs NetApp ASA comparison

Dell Technologies and NetApp are both solutions in the Enterprise SAN category. Dell Technologies is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2, while NetApp is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.0. Dell Technologies holds a 30.4% mindshare in ES, compared to NetApp’s 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Dell PowerVault

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100% willing to recommend

NetApp ASA

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerVault

Ranking in Enterprise SAN

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Fibre Channel (1st)

NetApp ASA

Ranking in Enterprise SAN

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (27th), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Enterprise SAN category, the mindshare of Dell PowerVault is 30.4%, up from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp ASA is 4.7%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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SigfridCecillon

Director at Arsium

Offers good stability and simplicity

The room for improvement lies in the responsiveness and real-time feedback of the web server setup. We could set up the installation through a web server, but it's not very reactive on the web server. For example, when you launch a task, and you don't know exactly if the task has begun or if the task is in progress, or if it's finished. You have to wait for three to five to ten minutes to be sure that the task is running or in progress or finished. So at that point, it's not very good. For the rest, we have a good organization for the platform. And it's working everywhere. Another area of improvement is duplication.

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reviewer2561733

Senior Client Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

A tried-and-true technology with good deduplication and support model

I would like to see more in terms of replication between storage classes. They provide different lines of storage. They have a lower class. They have a capacity class. They have their enterprise class. Currently, we have interoperability at the same plane with ONTAP, but we would like to see some more mix-and-match features. That would allow us to right-size our cost structure outside of the data center and maybe in places like a remote office or another colocation facility. Better interoperability between classes of storage or models of storage at NetApp would be beneficial to us because we can then continue to use NetApp across the board. We would also have some feature parity because we are bought into the ecosystem.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The storage has been good."

"I like the tool's CloudIQ feature."

"Dell PowerVault is cheap."

"The most valuable features are stability and response time."

"The Dell warranty is the most valuable feature."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is easy to manage and easy to use."

"PowerVault comes with free software that performs functions like data deduplication and replication, which is cost-effective and delivers added value to the product."

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"Their dedupe functionality is probably the best in the industry. We also find their support model to be good. When we purchase something, we have a very good understanding of how long that product will be supported by them. That helps."

Cons

"The price of the solution could be lower."

"The implementation process takes a while."

"The product could support an NVMe hard disk."

"I would like to see improvements made to the user interface."

"In the next release, I would like the deduplication and compression included, as well as the flash technology. It doesn't currently use it."

"We need higher performance and more reliable storage."

"Dell PowerVault is block-oriented storage only."

"I would like Dell to improve on the configuration of the disk groups. Only one group is expandable. Once you configure the other disk group types, you cannot expand them. It limits scalability. If you want maybe to grow a disk group, you lose information, and then you need to build it up again, which is not a good use case for customers."

More Dell PowerVault cons

"I would like to see more in terms of replication between storage classes. They provide different lines of storage. They have a lower class. They have a capacity class. They have their enterprise class. Currently, we have interoperability at the same plane with ONTAP, but we would like to see some more mix-and-match features."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate Dell PowerVault a six or seven out of ten for pricing."

"The solution is more cost-effective than the competitors. It’s an affordable option for small businesses."

"They are offering a wide range of support models for the customers such as basic support that is budget-friendly, but they also provide a professional support solution that is a bit costly"

"It is important to remember that the retail price may seem high, but the final price is usually different."

"I would rate the pricing model a nine out of ten, with one being expensive and ten being cheap."

"The price is reasonable and we are satisfied with it."

"The product is inexpensive."

"I rate the price of Dell PowerVault a nine out of ten."

More Dell PowerVault pricing and cost advice

"It is pretty good. It is definitely cheaper than Dell EMC. It is cheaper than Pure. It is cheaper than VAST. It is definitely cheaper than HPE. The only one that is on par with NetApp's pricing for enterprise customers is IBM."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

28%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dell PowerVault?

Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell PowerVault?

I rate the solution's pricing a seven to eight out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Dell PowerVault?

The product is generally stable, but there have been instances, to my knowledge, where we faced issues in the controller during software upgrades. The availability is not at the desired level durin...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp ASA?

It is pretty good. It is definitely cheaper than Dell EMC. It is cheaper than Pure. It is cheaper than VAST. It is definitely cheaper than HPE. The only one that is on par with NetApp's pricing for...

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What needs improvement with NetApp ASA?

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What is your primary use case for NetApp ASA?

We mostly use the solution for primary storage, and then we also have a secondary set that we are using for secondary and backup storage, but they are our primary storage provider.

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Overview

PowerVault MD3 storage arrays help you cost-effectively address the challenges of data growth with versatile solutions that are optimized for smaller-scale storage consolidation, flexible virtualization projects and high business continuity.

Dell Technologies

The NetApp ASA is an all-flash SAN storage array that delivers industry-leading availability, superior performance, and simplified data management across your hybrid cloud. It is designed for a wide range of workloads, including mission-critical applications, databases, and virtualized environments. NetApp ASA features a scale-out architecture that can be scaled to meet the needs of your growing business. They also support a wide range of built-in data protection and data security features, including snapshots, replication, disaster recovery, and autonomous ransomware protection.

Benefits

Superior performance for your dedicated SAN environment.
Continuous data access to support your business-critical workloads.
Simple and efficient data management that reduces TCO.
Effortless cloud connectivity with leading integration to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others.

Features

Ensure mission-critical data is secure and always available: NetApp ASA systems maintain data availability and keep critical applications running with symmetric active-active architecture—backed by NetApp’s Six Nines Data Availability Guarantee.
Safeguard data with built-in application-consistent data protection and achieve business continuity with synchronous disaster recovery.
Superior performance to power your most important applications: Achieve blazing-fast response times across business-critical applications with ASA systems. NetApp supports both NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP in the ASA A-Series, providing consistent low latency and millions of IOPS in a cluster.
Efficiency and simplicity that drive down TCO: With NetApp ONTAP data management software running on ASA systems, you can enjoy storage savings with 4:1 storage efficiency—guaranteed.

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Sample Customers

Dayco, FAW Foundry, University of Cambridge, Finder, Stadtwerke Pforzheim GmbH & Co.

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