We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and VAST Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Has a great mapping feature."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerStore is the all-NVMe flash storage. This is the most powerful feature of this series. It supports compression and duplication leads."
"It is a stable solution."
"Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"The price could be better."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"I would like to see a Snapshot feature. Currently, it is unable to occupy the capacity."
"There is no Synchronize replication feature on the storage."
"Dell PowerStore is a good solution overall, but some models could support hypervisors better by allowing for more customization and flexibility for customer needs."
"We are looking for the Dell PowerStore to become more mature to maximize our use cases."
"The customer service and support are bad."
"The storage could be improved. I would like a feature for how to best secure an appliance and the storage since we are connecting the container to the public cloud. I would like them to develop another level of security, making it more secure than from what they have now."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 18th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Qumulo, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Databricks.
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