We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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 management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The performance is very good."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"It is fast and performs well."
"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."
"The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"The setup and installation is much simpler now, because Dell has standardized the configure process."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replicate. We are running a financial company and it needs to be available 24/7. We can't afford any downtime."
"Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features."
"The replication and mirroring features are very good."
"One of the most valuable features is the overall performance it provides. You're able to throw a pile of IOPS at it and it will handle that without much issue."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications."
"The main advantage of this solution is performance."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"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."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"This solution could be improved if overall performance was improved and operated with a higher speed and supported a higher volume of RAM."
"Overall, I'd like to see more synergy between Dell EMC's higher-tier platforms and their mid-tier platforms. What I have said, constantly, to my partners at Dell EMC is that the clear articulation of the path is really important to us. In that vein, what I'd also like to see is, with the migration strategy that's built into this product, a lot more attention paid to Dell's - in particular - legacy platforms and how we get from some of our legacy EMC platforms onto this platform with a straight-through migration and scaling strategy, not host-based migrations and not piecemeal... Dell EMC would do well to focus more on my ability to skip a generation, rather than having me take individual hops because I can't greenfield my way into a software-defined data center fast enough. This journey of multiple hops is not helpful."
"I would like to have 100% functionality through the web app."
"I would like to see higher compression, dedupe, faster I/O, and bigger drives."
"The SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage."
"While the price is competitive, in the next release it would be better if they could reduce the fees."
"An issue we had was that the controller went down during an upgrade because of their upgrading the code. One side of the switch was down."
"NetApp could improve the speed of the rebuilding rate."
"I would like to shrink it more, if we can. The smaller, the better."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"The initial setup phase of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is not straightforward and needs improvement."
"The only major drawback is the replication between EF-Series units."
"It needs a better management tool."
"The solution's technical support is not as good as it is supposed to be since you have to push them to get support."
"We need a center related to NetApp in Egypt so that we can deal with them directly."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera. See our Dell SC Series vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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