We performed a comparison between Dell PowerPath and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, DataCore, Dell Technologies and others in Storage Software."The solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy."
"We have found the solution to be quite flexible and very scalable."
"The product is very reliable."
"OS-aware multipathing is a valuable feature of the product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that disaster recovery scenarios are very good and easy to use in Dell PowerPath since it is available in a simplified form."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration without disruptions."
"The user interface is good."
"It provides a high availability and will increase the performance of any server or operating system."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Support has been helpful."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is very reliable."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"Although PowerPath is very mature and has been on the market for more than 15 years there are still a lot of bugs that have been profiled with PowerPath, specifically, during any OS upgrade."
"While I utilize it for data migration, I would love to do that data migration in a GUI from an ease of use perspective."
"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."
"The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux."
"The technical support is good but they are not available all the time."
"The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"It needs to improve its price."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
Dell PowerPath is ranked 3rd in Storage Software with 8 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Dell PowerPath is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerPath writes "A resilient and reliable solution that has many load-balancing technologies and provides high availability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Dell PowerPath is most compared with NetApp ONTAP, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN.
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