We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and HPE StoreEasy 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."It's easy to manage. The web UI is very intuitive, and there's CLI also that you can use to manage it."
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"The guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice."
"PowerScale has made it extremely easy to scale file data across our organization. We have two implementations of Isilon. One is a replica of the other. When scaling, we add nodes to each location and expand the cluster. The process is straightforward."
"The solution's scalability is very good."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the duplication."
"The most valuable feature of HPE StoreEasy is the storing of virtual machines."
"I can use both the on-premises and cloud storage options. I need to have an APR extension from StoreEasy, and it's that simple."
"I like the user quotas, integrations, and separations for storage."
"This solution allows me to better and more easily manage user data without impacting my primary storage."
"I like the tool's provisioning feature and OneView."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"Isilon has limitations on the number of files that can be generated."
"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."
"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."
"It would be nice to see tools like Superna Eyeglass built into PowerScale."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"Its configuration needs to be more straightforward."
"The support of HPE StoreEasy can improve its responsiveness. Dell support is better."
"I would like to improve the tool's technical support. I would also like to see the product's hybrid cloud version."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. In the next release, I would like to access some Microsoft Windows storage server features. I guess the newest version of Windows Server has some restrictions."
"We need some monitoring tools and it would be helpful if they were included."
"When I configure the StoreEasy in a complex environment I have problems finding compatibility with all the software."
"The cluster service is not available in the latest version of HPE StoreEasy."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 37 reviews while HPE StoreEasy is ranked 8th in NAS with 7 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while HPE StoreEasy is rated 8.2. 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 StoreEasy writes "Good backup solution for applications that is also scalable and stable ". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas HPE StoreEasy is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Qumulo, FreeNAS, IBM Scale-out NAS and HPE 3PAR StoreServ. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. HPE StoreEasy report.
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