We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and VAST Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The technical support is very good."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerStore is the all-NVMe flash storage. This is the most powerful feature of this series. It supports compression and duplication leads."
"The PowerStore's compression ratio is even higher than the Unity system."
"Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"Reliable, with comprehensive features and a well-established support base."
"It is very easy to use. Access is very friendly. It shows you a lot of important information at the first glance. It has been very easy to use."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"Dell PowerStore is an easy and fast tool to work through our company's data."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"Data reduction needs improvement."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"PowerStore's management console could be improved."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"The solution only does thin provisioning."
"The price is on the higher side."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"After the smooth launch of the product in our company, only the areas around upgrades are a bit problematic. In our organization, we face difficulties when updating the product."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 18th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. 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 VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Qumulo, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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