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."The guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice."
"Dell PowerScale's performance is good."
"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."
"Our main goal is to do disaster recovery with whatever solution we use and Isilon makes it pretty simple to replicate those workloads over to our secondary data center."
"Its scalability has been huge for us."
"Dell PowerScale is a scalable solution. It allows non-disruptive upgrades and maintenance of the system."
"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."
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"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."
"MinIO can work with attributes and folders, and it has the ability to use a stream approach for files. I have moments that should work exclusively. It also has some management features you can use, like exclusive locks that you can perform on one record or a collection."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"Nice web interface, easy to use, with a low memory footprint."
"The tool’s integration is very easy. This feature has helped us reduce development time. The solution also has many out-of-the-box features like versioning support and management of roles and permissions. The product also supports clustered deployment."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"Very good at object retrieval."
"The initial setup was very easy - one click, and it was installed."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."
"The UID mapping and how to configure mapping-related things is a struggle."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is a little bit pricey, and its pricing could be improved."
"The solution can be a bit complex for those not well versed in the technology."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is a bit expensive compared to other products."
"The only thing that I think PowerScale could do better is improving the HTTP data access protocol. At the present, you cannot protect access to data via HTTP or HTTPS the same way that you can secure data access through other protocols like NFS or SMB[...]the Unified Permission Model that would allow a user to authenticate before being able to access a private file, does not apply."
"The product needs to improve CLI since commands are complex. The search option is also difficult since you must give the full path."
"Documentation could be improved."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"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."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"The scalability is one of the limitations we have found. We are looking for another solution but they must provide the same characteristics, such as an affordable price and continuity."
"The solution lacks documentation."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 3rd in File and Object Storage with 40 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 VAST Data, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Hitachi Content Platform. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. MinIO report.
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