We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and IBM FlashSystem 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."The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features."
"Its scalability has been huge for us."
"Its most valuable feature is the DR capabilities replication."
"The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"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 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."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward and can be done in an hour and a half by one person."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression, which together, enable you to have more space."
"The most valuable feature is reliability."
"User friendly management interface."
"The GUI is very easy and performance is also good."
"The initial setup was really straightforward. It was not complex. Deployment took one month, due to the data migration duration."
"Over the years, it has become increasingly user-friendly."
"Flash disk with Easy Tier option"
"The solution can be a bit complex for those not well versed in the technology."
"The solution's rate structure or rate redundancy needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"I would like to see increased reporting and statistics functionalities."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."
"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 UID mapping and how to configure mapping-related things is a struggle."
"The solution isn't suitable for small environments or small customers."
"It is slightly more expensive, however, it all depends on your supplier."
"The array level RAID does not seem available."
"I would like to see bigger modules."
"The interface of this solution could be improved."
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"The design is a little old-fashioned and could be updated. The rack is very primitive and designed in an older style."
"In IBM FlashSystem, data reduction is an area with shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"The marketing could be improved."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 39 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while IBM FlashSystem 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 IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and IBM Scale-out NAS, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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