We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its scalability has been huge for us."
"The tool's most valuable features are scalability and stability."
"The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features."
"The solution's scalability is very good."
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"The best thing is that it works. We don't have to maintain it too much; we usually upgrade once a year."
"The most valuable feature we started using, beyond the initial scope for the solution, is the multi-protocol system that allows you to access the same set of files using different network protocols like NFS or SMB. PowerScale’s Unified Permission Model ensures that data security and access permissions are honoured regardless of whether the client is a Windows desktop or a Linux server"
"Ability to scale the number of nodes without having to build additional clusters."
"We have been able to save local disk space by using Data Lens. We upload 18 GB to the cloud and are able to save 20% to 25%."
"The integration with Prism Central makes it a lot easier to manage, so we just have a single pane of glass location that we can go to. We do not have a separate admin console or anything that we have to use."
"The most valuable features are the interface and support."
"They have well-documented best practices and the interface is good."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"The scalability, ease of use, and technical support are the most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage."
"The most valuable feature is that it is highly available, solving the pain-point of delaying updates to Windows-based file servers during production hours. And then the second one would be ransomware protection and analytics. It gives you great visibility and protection on your file shares that are otherwise the most common sources of vulnerabilities."
"Nutanix Unified Storage does a very good job of unifying our organization's block, file, and object storage. It puts it all in one place. From one platform, we can deploy S3-type buckets. We can provide iSCSI-level block storage if we need to. It does a great job with home folders and departmental shares, which is what we mostly use Nutanix Unified Storage for."
"Additional metadata reporting would be great. We have to use a separate tool to report on that. We would like to view the age of data and how long it has been since someone has accessed a file."
"That said, for the other security features, it would be helpful if Tenable - and I know it's outside the scope of this question itself - had Isilon-specific plugins."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"Data storage performance needs to be improved."
"It is a bit higher priced than some of the other systems."
"The replication could lend itself to some improvement around encryption in transit and managing the racing of large volumes of data. The process of file over and file back can be tedious. Hopefully, you never end up going into a DR. If you do go into a DR, you know the data is there on the remote site. However, in terms of the process of setting up the replicates and filing them back, that is just very tedious and could definitely do with some improvement."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Customer service is more difficult to call and they do not responding as much as, for example, DataCore. It's not the same level of satisfaction compared to DataCore. Responses could be faster."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"Unified Storage failed to fulfill our object storage requirements."
"The solution should increase its storage capabilities."
"We have issues with software updates occasionally."
"What's missing in Nutanix Files Storage is the support for multiple intranets or VLANs on the same file from different networks and network devices."
"With all of the Nutanix equipment, the licensing is expensive. We operate in the enterprise space, but we're a midsized company. At times, the price tag is a little bit shocking for a company with only 35 employees."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 3rd in File and Object Storage with 40 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) writes "We can easily deploy, manage, and maintain systems without needing a huge amount of expertise to facilitate them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and MinIO, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS, Qumulo and VAST Data. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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