We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Huawei OceanStor 9000 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."Our users are able to easily roll back snapshots without going through IT."
"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."
"Dell PowerScale's performance is good."
"Dell PowerScale is a scalable solution. It allows non-disruptive upgrades and maintenance of the system."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is all the capabilities together."
"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 is stable."
"The guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice."
"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."
"There is room for improvement with the updates. It can take a significant amount of time to do a major OS update. However, even though it takes multiple reboots, the cluster stays up. If we want to apply a newer version of the OS, we have to roll back some of the patches so that we can upgrade. It requires a few reboots just to do that. The cluster doesn't come down, everything is still running, but it's time-consuming, at times."
"It would be nice to see tools like Superna Eyeglass built into PowerScale."
"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."
"Dell PowerScale's deployment is not easy."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is a bit expensive compared to other products."
"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."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"There aren't many templates still coming out for it. They need to provide templates so we can copy and paste what we've done in the past to future, new things."
"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."
"The call charges and the management cost should be more friendly. They can also include monitoring and management."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 39 reviews while Huawei OceanStor 9000 is ranked 11th 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 Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Hitachi NAS Platform, whereas Huawei OceanStor 9000 is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Qumulo and IBM FlashSystem.
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