afidel wrote:
As expected Dell was very aggressive on pricing, $2/GB with 20% flash storage. Quote includes 5 years hardware and software support. I think we're going to pull the trigger, I'll let you guys know how it compares to our 7400-4.
I own a pair of Compellents and 7 3par arrasy and I will take any 3par over any Compellent any day of the week. The Comepllent is decent, and there are features they have I wish 3par had, but Compellent is just not up to the task.
Some basic differences that we value:
- 3par truly leverages all controllers for all volumes, Compellent, each volume is owned by a controller and IO for a volume only goes through that controller.
- Compellent is only a dual controller setup, 3par you can do 2,4 or 8 controllers.
- 3par has a very robust CLI that you can virtually script everything and anything through, Compellent does not.
- To fully leverage some of the Compellent features you need to have their Enterprise Manager software running on system.
- 3par has true IP based replication, Compellent is either FC or iSCSI