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."The solution's scalability is very good."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is all the capabilities together."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"It has allowed us to have more consistent quality controls. It has also allowed us to expand the number of servers in clients processing and accessing data, allowing us to get a lot bigger projects out the door."
"It's easy to manage. The web UI is very intuitive, and there's CLI also that you can use to manage it."
"This is the best platform that we could have for storage utilization. It is affordable and scalable. At the end of the day, it's something that we find very easy to use."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is easy to use. New employees are able to come up to speed fairly quickly with regard to the day-to-day administration processes."
"Nutanix Volumes is a perfectly stable product."
"The real-time alerts generated by this system enable us to swiftly address and mitigate such threats."
"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."
"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."
"Nutanix's analytics provide better insights into all of our files."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"The management interface is great and you have handy access to several details about your file shares."
"I'd like to see more Iceland products in the cloud so that we can port our data into different environments if needed. I would also like to see a virtual appliance or software-defined Iceland product."
"The UID mapping and how to configure mapping-related things is a struggle."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."
"We used to have a chat feature available on the support site. It's not available to us anymore."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) could improve the load distribution capability. For example, in some cases, the system load is not distributed automatically on all the nodes but is concentrated only on one. You have a peak request on only one node and the others don't do anything."
"The legacy file system for Epsilon didn't scale into the cloud and didn't have a separate OS. It would be key if this was made possible."
"Because of the magic that it does 'under the hood,' it is very difficult to find out within the system where all your storage is going. That's a little bit of a ding that we have on it. It does so much magic in order to protect itself from drive failures or multiple drive failures, that it automatically handles the provisioning and storage of your data. But by doing that, finding out why a file of a certain size, or a directory of a certain size, is using more storage than is being reported in InsightIQ, is very difficult to discern."
"Dell PowerScale's deployment is not easy."
"Lowering the price would improve this product."
"One thing I'd appreciate is having a desktop application similar to what VMware offered."
"The interface could be improved."
"The GUI is easy to use, but it's complex to do tasks from the command line. That is one way they could simplify things for the engineers. People tend to use a graphical interface more than the command line interface. If anything goes wrong, we need to do troubleshooting from the CLI. It would be nice if there were more ways to fix issues within the GUI."
"Allowing the use of the Gflag compromises the integrity of the Nutanix system and its established standards."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 2nd 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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