We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and MinIO based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"The guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice."
"It's easy to manage. The web UI is very intuitive, and there's CLI also that you can use to manage it."
"Since it can scale so easily, as long as I have money to buy more nodes, I can grow it as big as I need to. That is important in our business. As sequencing technologies continue to evolve, and as those technologies evolve, the amount of data generation never gets smaller. It just always seems to get bigger. This is one of the absolute key aspects: We can grow on demand without having to forklift stuff."
"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."
"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."
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"The solution has simplified management by consolidating our workloads. Rather than managing all the different workloads on different storage arrays, Windows Servers, etc., we just have one place per data centre where we manage all their unstructured data, saving us time."
"The container installation features are good. The S3 feature provisions the storage buckets making it easy. It allows me to spin up the public buckets with open-source technology."
"This is an all-in-one, user-friendly data storage."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"The features that I have found most valuable with MinIO is its coding bit rot protection and how it distributes the workload over all the servers."
"I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust."
"The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"The only thing that I think PowerScale could do better is improving the HTTP data access protocol. At the present, you cannot protect access to data via HTTP or HTTPS the same way that you can secure data access through other protocols like NFS or SMB[...]the Unified Permission Model that would allow a user to authenticate before being able to access a private file, does not apply."
"Data storage performance needs to be improved."
"We lost our technical sales reps about two years ago. We haven't gotten one assigned to us and we'd love to have one."
"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."
"It would be nice to see tools like Superna Eyeglass built into PowerScale."
"We used to have a chat feature available on the support site. It's not available to us anymore."
"The product needs to improve CLI since commands are complex. The search option is also difficult since you must give the full path."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"The Distributed User Interface (DUI) needs some work. It's hard to view a large set of data on the DUI. It's an issue with the DUI's performance."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"The MinIO dashboard is minimal as there are only a couple of features inside the dashboard for a basic user. I would like this to be more robust with more click-around features."
"The developer support could be better."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 2nd in File and Object Storage with 37 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while MinIO is rated 8.0. 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 MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Nutanix Unified Storage, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Scality RING. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. MinIO report.
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