Likelihood to Recommend Dell EqualLogic is well suited in a virtual environment where the ability to quickly create new volumes is important. Also, being able to back-up and restore data pools is a key factor, as well as automating your storage environment. Smaller businesses would be less suited in this scenario and would be better off with a less expensive NAS solution.
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The HPE MSA is best suited for basic SAN requirements. Having dual controllers provides redundancy and allows for firmware upgrades without incurring downtime to the environment. It provides enough IOPS for most workloads be it VMWare or servers requiring storage. For applications such as MS SQL or Exchange, other SAN solutions would be better. Plus the lack of storage snapshot capabilities is also a detriment to the product line. Lack of any reporting capability is also an issue especially when determining workload capabilities.
Read full review Pros Provides a hybrid mixture of SAS and SSD disks Different raid levels allowed across shelves Daisy chain SAN controllers Rob Bates Public & Private Cloud 4th Line Senior Engineer
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Functions well as a disaster recovery cluster repository Since the space is a spinning disk, it is inexpensive All of our VMs are stored in a mass storage repository on the system, but we could carve out specific LUNs if needed. Read full review Cons Be nice to use a hybrid of drives. Solid state and hard disk drives. Configuration was easy, but the maintaining of it can be a little difficult. We are a small shop. The system runs great, but when it comes to increasing storage space, etc., it can be difficult because we aren't in it daily. Some options are buried pretty well, which makes it tough to find. Troy Smith Vice President of Information Technology/Network Administrator
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Firmware upgrades. We have had major issues on two occasions, causing extended downtime. HP was quick to help and resolve, but I am not sure why our simple implementation caused an issue that should have been picked up by testing prior to release. Once was bad, twice painful. The end result is that we purchased a unit solely to test firmware upgrades on, not really great for us! Support life span. Units go end of life support after around 4 years, a little too short for us. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It is a functioning Replication system for us and checks all the boxes that the auditors are looking for. Further, it is inexpensive and the storage we purchased was cheap. HP has a good reputation in the industry that plays into the decision also.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Having used HP StorageWorks, I have found that the Dell EqualLogic works more smoothly in a VMware environment. There are plugins that work in vSphere that allow you to create volumes and provision new virtual servers with relative ease. The software and interface that the EqualLogic runs on is more straightforward as well.
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The dual controller configuration of the HPE MSA trumps the
Synology DiskStation 's single controller configuration. For that alone, I would select the HPE MSA. Without that setup, any controller issue or firmware upgrade is disruptive to the systems the SAN is providing storage to. Furthermore, HPE's support is better than what Synology currently provides. The lack of phone support on Synology's part slows down the troubleshooting of issues compared to HPE. Furthermore, HPE's engineers are able to do a remote session and can work on the problems directly compared to Synology's support.
Read full review Return on Investment Easy deployment with assistance from Dell meant a quick turn around time Dell after support very good. Disk failures are dealt with quickly Management of the units and ease Rob Bates Public & Private Cloud 4th Line Senior Engineer
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Increased up time. Better user experience. Good value for money. ROI high. Peace of mind. Just knowing that you rely on the solution to meet storage performance needs is great. Read full review ScreenShots