We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"The scalability is good."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"The support is very good."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"When compared to Pure Storage, Dell PowerStore's cost was quite attractive."
"Dell PowerStore is an easy and fast tool to work through our company's data."
"The supportability of SCME drives for faster data access from the PowerStore and is the most valuable feature."
"It provides a big benefit when upgrading a new VMware environment. For example, in a big environment with 10 to 30 ESXs, you can take everything and put that into PowerStore. So, it is cost-effective, which is very important and has been massive for us. You reduce almost 80% from the hardware and work directly from PowerStore. Building hardware, especially in a big VMware environment, is a big issue for my organization."
"The most valuable features of Dell PowerStore are the support for NVMe and SCM, which provides end-to-end performance and high IOPS, minimizing latency. It is a full-fledged storage solution."
"This solution is very useful to us as we use it internally for all of the services that we need. We use it as a lab and we showcase new technology to the customers and how it can help them going forward."
"The main advantage of this solution is performance."
"It provides multi-protocol, which is what gives the edge when it comes to big lineage PC workloads."
"Some of the valuable features include MetroCluster switchover, in terms of disaster recovery, it is easy to use, and flexible."
"I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance."
"The replication and mirroring features are very good."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"The benefits are better up-time, better response time."
"We use it for our VDI environment, and have not had any complaints with it."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"It needs to improve its price."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster."
"More demonstration and training options are needed."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"PowerStore's management console could be improved."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"Reporting is an area that could be improved. It's very simplistic sometimes, and some of the very technical guys on my team want to see more of the details and be able to massage the report a little bit better."
"The price is on the higher side."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T"
"Better integration with other brands is important so we would like to see it easier to integrate."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
"I would like to see higher-capacity drives, as they come out; I have heard that 15 TB are out on a different NetApp series. Getting those on the EFs would be nice."
"It needs a better management tool."
"This solution has limited storage."
"The pricing could be cheaper and it should have documentation in more languages, specifically, Russian."
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Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, HPE Primera and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell PowerStore vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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