We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 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."Our users are able to easily roll back snapshots without going through IT."
"PowerScale allows us to manage storage without managing RAID groups or migrating volumes between controllers. It has really simplified things. We're not having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. That takes care of itself. We just worry about the data. It's really easy for deploying and managing storage at the petabyte scale."
"Ability to scale the number of nodes without having to build additional clusters."
"PowerScale helped free up our employees' time to focus on other business priorities. There are now automated jobs such as backing up and replicating data, that reduce the footprint we have. Those types of tasks were previously done manually."
"This is the best platform that we could have for storage utilization. It is affordable and scalable. At the end of the day, it's something that we find very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"The solution is stable."
"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"The performance is very good."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is that you can use it with all deployment models."
"The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point."
"One of the features, for us, that is important is the monitoring platform integrated into the solution. It has all the elements that we need to see, at all times, to be sure the platform is working right."
"Its scalability and performance are the most valuable. It is quite scalable and has a huge capacity."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."
"There aren't many templates still coming out for it. They need to provide templates so we can copy and paste what we've done in the past to future, new things."
"We used to have a chat feature available on the support site. It's not available to us anymore."
"The biggest weakness is small file handling. Small file compression options are not enabled out of the box. It would be good to have this enabled by default."
"Dell PowerScale needs to reduce its price."
"The replication could lend itself to some improvement around encryption in transit and managing the racing of large volumes of data. The process of file over and file back can be tedious. Hopefully, you never end up going into a DR. If you do go into a DR, you know the data is there on the remote site. However, in terms of the process of setting up the replicates and filing them back, that is just very tedious and could definitely do with some improvement."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"It would be nice to see tools like Superna Eyeglass built into PowerScale."
"We moved away from this product because we were looking for an all-flash solution, and with our G1500 at the time, perhaps two years ago, they were just proposing more of the same technology."
"We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"The initial setup was difficult, as we don't have access to assistance. We had some issues around configuration. We needed to know things like what kind of rate is the best, or what kind of replication is ideal. We had to seek out answers online to get the information we needed."
"In the next version I would like to see additional features like artificial intelligence and an increase in the amount of data it can store."
"The solution is priced higher than its competitors."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"The interface should be simplified and made easier to use."
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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 37 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 5th in NAS with 48 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. 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 Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and HPE StoreEasy, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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