We performed a comparison between Dell PowerPath and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, DataCore, Dell Technologies and others in Storage Software."It provides a high availability and will increase the performance of any server or operating system."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration without disruptions."
"The product is very reliable."
"The solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that disaster recovery scenarios are very good and easy to use in Dell PowerPath since it is available in a simplified form."
"OS-aware multipathing is a valuable feature of the product."
"The user interface is good."
"We have found the solution to be quite flexible and very scalable."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"It's actually very stable"
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks."
"The technical support is good but they are not available all the time."
"Although PowerPath is very mature and has been on the market for more than 15 years there are still a lot of bugs that have been profiled with PowerPath, specifically, during any OS upgrade."
"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."
"While I utilize it for data migration, I would love to do that data migration in a GUI from an ease of use perspective."
"Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"The file functionality could be better."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
Dell PowerPath is ranked 3rd in Storage Software with 8 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Dell PowerPath is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerPath writes "A resilient and reliable solution that has many load-balancing technologies and provides high availability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Dell PowerPath is most compared with NetApp ONTAP, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN.
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