We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and HPE 3PAR StoreServ 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."There are also the policies that you set up on replication and purging files, and policies for something called WORM. That's a "write once, read many," where you can't overwrite certain files or certain data. It puts them in a "protected mode" where it becomes very difficult for someone to accidentally delete. We use that for certain files or certain directories, because we're dealing with video and some video has to be protected for chain-of-custody purposes. The WORM feature works great."
"You plug in a new node and data starts migrating over to it, and IT spreads out the load. We've added multiple nodes to the system since deploying it. The process is pretty seamless, and we are able to do it with no downtime. It's a very easy process to do."
"Dell PowerScale is a scalable solution. It allows non-disruptive upgrades and maintenance of the system."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"The recent introduction of inline deduplication and compression has drastically improved our efficiency ratios to make it an economical product. This solution has also had a positive impact on our employees' productivity because it reduces the amount of admin that our staff needs to handle."
"Ability to scale the number of nodes without having to build additional clusters."
"The best thing is that it works. We don't have to maintain it too much; we usually upgrade once a year."
"It's easy to manage. The web UI is very intuitive, and there's CLI also that you can use to manage it."
"The Call Home feature is really a great feature, so I do not need to monitor the 3PAR. The 3PAR team is monitoring it and letting me know if there are any problems."
"Being able to provision drives on demand, as opposed to populating a whole stack of drives and not using them. In the latter scenario, you are locking your money in, you don't get a return on investment. On the fly, you can build up your storage as needed, so that's a very good feature."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"We're using the all-flash arrays and, with the deduplication and compression, it just really fits our virtualization environment very well."
"It is a stable solution."
"HPE can login, fix things, alert us to things, and upgrade. We are there and aware, but we do not do the work. So, that is good."
"It works well and we don't have any issues with this solution."
"We have our backups set up to replicate between two sites, then we also have our storage set up to replicate between two sites."
"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."
"I would like to see increased reporting and statistics functionalities."
"Some improvements to the NFS support would be of interest to us."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."
"The biggest weakness is small file handling. Small file compression options are not enabled out of the box. It would be good to have this enabled by default."
"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 price of the solution could be reduced."
"The solution lacks reliability."
"It would also help if they integrate current technologies, newer technologies, and more efficient technologies, as time progresses. For example, integrate the fourth level of NAND devices."
"3PAR did not increase our performance, and it has increased our latency by at least double."
"This solution is becoming dated."
"They should add AI-enabled dashboards to the solution."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"The initial setup was complex, due to calculating the amount of performance that we needed for the floor."
"Although we experienced malfunctions where a virus was running and it failed."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 38 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ 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 HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Nasuni, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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