We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and SolidFire 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."Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
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"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerStore is the all-NVMe flash storage. This is the most powerful feature of this series. It supports compression and duplication leads."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"It's a great product. Integrating PowerStore with the IT workflow is easy."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use."
"Dell EMC PowerStore is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"We can add a node, we add compute, we add storage, and we've had really good luck with that."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"The provisioning process is efficient and doesn't demand higher latency, ensuring optimal data transfer performance which is particularly valuable for tasks like data mining, where quick results are essential."
"Templates are already predefined for it. If you're coding it up, it will take two days. You can pick up a template right there from the API, and it just works for you. Implementation done in 10 minutes."
"The scalability and being able to implement it quickly."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"We need better data deduplication."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"The price is on the higher side."
"Dell PowerStore is a good solution overall, but some models could support hypervisors better by allowing for more customization and flexibility for customer needs."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"Could use some additional automation."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"We would consider this solution if the pricing is competitive with other options, as it offers a very good solution. However, the current price is slightly higher than the competition."
"Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
"The upgrade process could be better."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"The user interface needs to be improved. Much of the client feedback involves comments such as "Oh, it's hard to navigate through.""
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 47 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, VMware vSAN and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Dell PowerStore vs. SolidFire report.
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