We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon), HPE StoreEasy, and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."There are also the policies that you set up on replication and purging files, and policies for something called WORM. That's a "write once, read many," where you can't overwrite certain files or certain data. It puts them in a "protected mode" where it becomes very difficult for someone to accidentally delete. We use that for certain files or certain directories, because we're dealing with video and some video has to be protected for chain-of-custody purposes. The WORM feature works great."
"The tool's most valuable features are scalability and stability."
"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 most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"I don't have to rebuild the cluster to add a node."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"Its most valuable feature is the DR capabilities replication."
"The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"This solution allows me to better and more easily manage user data without impacting my primary storage."
"I like the user quotas, integrations, and separations for storage."
"The most valuable feature of HPE StoreEasy is the storing of virtual machines."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the duplication."
"I like the tool's provisioning feature and OneView."
"I can use both the on-premises and cloud storage options. I need to have an APR extension from StoreEasy, and it's that simple."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"I have found all the features useful in NetApp FAS Series."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"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."
"The solution isn't suitable for small environments or small customers."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"The solution's rate structure or rate redundancy needs to be improved."
"The thing that they are working on now, and we are following closely is more native cloud integrations. The way that we envision workloads in the future is around moving compute to data instead of the other way around. So, we would like to have a single pane glass to manage storage across a variety of different platforms, including native cloud. That would be awesome."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"We lost our technical sales reps about two years ago. We haven't gotten one assigned to us and we'd love to have one."
"I would like to improve the tool's technical support. I would also like to see the product's hybrid cloud version."
"We need some monitoring tools and it would be helpful if they were included."
"When I configure the StoreEasy in a complex environment I have problems finding compatibility with all the software."
"The support of HPE StoreEasy can improve its responsiveness. Dell support is better."
"The cluster service is not available in the latest version of HPE StoreEasy."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. In the next release, I would like to access some Microsoft Windows storage server features. I guess the newest version of Windows Server has some restrictions."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
"We have some experience with older equipment end-of-life. For example, when warranty support stops or updates stop – it can be frustrating. Not all clients can buy a new filer every year or two, and NetApp ending support a bit quickly can be a concern."
"The solution could do more than just data."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
