We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Huawei OceanStor 9000 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's most valuable features are scalability and flexibility."
"Isilon is flexible in supporting various data workloads while keeping them protected. Dell continues to release updates and patches which enhance the use of this solution. This includes offering ransomware protection."
"For maximizing storage utilization, PowerScale is great. When you write the data to it, it spreads it out to all the nodes, so you get all the performance from the entire pool."
"The solution provides massive performance, scalability, efficiency, and ease of management."
"Dell PowerScale's performance is good."
"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"
"PowerScale helped free up our employees' time to focus on other business priorities. There are now automated jobs such as backing up and replicating data, that reduce the footprint we have. Those types of tasks were previously done manually."
"The solution has simplified management by consolidating our workloads. Rather than managing all the different workloads on different storage arrays, Windows Servers, etc., we just have one place per data centre where we manage all their unstructured data, saving us time."
"The storage capacity is really one of the most valuable features. Also, the GUI is very friendly and the switches gives high performance. The technology used in storage is RAID which as helped us a lot to expand and store various items ."
"It has many options for scalability, and it is stable."
"It is a bit higher priced than some of the other systems."
"We lost our technical sales reps about two years ago. We haven't gotten one assigned to us and we'd love to have one."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"We had some issues with level 1 support. We had to fight with them on repeated issues. There is room for improvement in level 1 support."
"The solution's rate structure or rate redundancy needs to be improved."
"Dell PowerScale's deployment is not easy."
"The solution isn't suitable for small environments or small customers."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"The call charges and the management cost should be more friendly. They can also include monitoring and management."
"The handling of data deletion and bulk servers setup could have been more straightforward and easier when dealing with data removal or setting up servers. I believe Huawei could enhance their solutions, especially managing storage, to provide a better experience for customers."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 40 reviews while Huawei OceanStor 9000 is ranked 12th in NAS with 2 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Huawei OceanStor 9000 is rated 8.6. 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 Huawei OceanStor 9000 writes "An entry-level, flash-based storage system designed for enterprise-class applications". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Hitachi NAS Platform, whereas Huawei OceanStor 9000 is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, IBM FlashSystem and Qumulo. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Huawei OceanStor 9000 report.
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