We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and MinIO 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."Since it can scale so easily, as long as I have money to buy more nodes, I can grow it as big as I need to. That is important in our business. As sequencing technologies continue to evolve, and as those technologies evolve, the amount of data generation never gets smaller. It just always seems to get bigger. This is one of the absolute key aspects: We can grow on demand without having to forklift stuff."
"The fact that we were able to set it up, use it, and, for the most part, didn't have to worry about it after we had it set up has been valuable."
"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."
"Dell PowerScale's performance is good."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"The features that I have found most valuable with MinIO is its coding bit rot protection and how it distributes the workload over all the servers."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"This is an all-in-one, user-friendly data storage."
"The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"It performs efficiently compared to other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The stability of MinIO is good."
"For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is a bit expensive compared to other products."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"It would be nice to see tools like Superna Eyeglass built into PowerScale."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"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 solution's rate structure or rate redundancy needs to be improved."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"The solution isn't suitable for small environments or small customers."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"We had minor bugs occasionally."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"There should be the ability to expand the size after it has already been deployed. Currently, you cannot do that. It doesn't support an increase in size. Each time we spawn a new MinIO, we need to track the particular MinIO instance or tenant that has the file. Therefore, we had to create a multi-tenant solution that tracks the MinIO that has our artifacts. It isn't in one single instance. It should have better multi-tenancy support."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"With problems, visibility is hard because everything is in containers. Difficult to get to the logs in order to figure out what the problem was."
"MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO. It's not too significant, but it loses connection. We're trying to understand exactly what is happening when this happens."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 2nd in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while MinIO is rated 8.0. 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 MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Nutanix Unified Storage, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Scality RING. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. MinIO report.
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