We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and HPE 3PAR StoreServ 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.
"The solution's scalability is very good."
"The most valuable feature we started using, beyond the initial scope for the solution, is the multi-protocol system that allows you to access the same set of files using different network protocols like NFS or SMB. PowerScale’s Unified Permission Model ensures that data security and access permissions are honoured regardless of whether the client is a Windows desktop or a Linux server"
"PowerScale has made it extremely easy to scale file data across our organization. We have two implementations of Isilon. One is a replica of the other. When scaling, we add nodes to each location and expand the cluster. The process is straightforward."
"For maximizing storage utilization, PowerScale is great. When you write the data to it, it spreads it out to all the nodes, so you get all the performance from the entire pool."
"Our main goal is to do disaster recovery with whatever solution we use and Isilon makes it pretty simple to replicate those workloads over to our secondary data center."
"Its scalability has been huge for us."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is all the capabilities together."
"Remote-copy provides high availability and disaster recovery for the connected clients."
"When we started using 3PAR what we liked was the simplicity of the product. We needed a higher performance storage and, in our support model, we needed to keep the simplicity of the storage architecture, keep it as clean and as manageable as we could."
"With the HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, we can grow as required."
"If there is a problem then the HPE facility will detect it and immediately contact me."
"We have our backups set up to replicate between two sites, then we also have our storage set up to replicate between two sites."
"Scalability, because our customer is fast growing and our solution should be able to start very small and grow very quickly."
"It is very stable. That is why we bought it."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"Dell PowerScale needs to reduce its price."
"It is a bit higher priced than some of the other systems."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) could improve the load distribution capability. For example, in some cases, the system load is not distributed automatically on all the nodes but is concentrated only on one. You have a peak request on only one node and the others don't do anything."
"The product needs to improve CLI since commands are complex. The search option is also difficult since you must give the full path."
"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."
"I'd like to see more Iceland products in the cloud so that we can port our data into different environments if needed. I would also like to see a virtual appliance or software-defined Iceland product."
"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."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"It needs better dedupe. It is hard for all the older generation arrays to put up dedupe because they tend to do the other stuff so much better. They have to keep the stability before any other new feature."
"File Persona can be better. I don't use File Persona because it has many problems with my environment. The antivirus that it has is not compatible with File Persona, and that's a big issue with File Persona. 3PAR is not as good as Dell when making a file in the storage. 3PAR for a block is very good, but when comparing row capacity, I get 14% capacity with 3PAR, but with Dell, I get 60% capacity."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"They should add AI-enabled dashboards to the solution."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"It's still an older architecture, you've got a lot of physical spinning disks. I would imagine more the memory-based computing is coming."
"Needs more flexibility and expansion, and also relocation, a cloud solution."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 37 reviews while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6. 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 HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Nasuni, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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