We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and SolidFire 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."As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"Has a great mapping feature."
"It is a stable solution."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"Dell EMC PowerStore is scalable."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"It's got full API functionality and the performance is pretty steady."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"We can just buy them, scale them as we need on demand, and we don't have to spend so many front end cycles on designing the architecture."
"Greater IOPS, speed, it's all-flash. So seeing that everything is going to all-flash, all SSDs, SolidFire fits right in there with the emerging trend in IT."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"It was very new when we first deployed it a year ago. Even the upgrade processes and knowing what to expect, as well as documentation, could be more robust."
"I would like to see a Snapshot feature. Currently, it is unable to occupy the capacity."
"You cannot delegate permissions."
"I have not seen anything specific. The only thing I can think of that needs improvement is the price."
"More demonstration and training options are needed."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"It needs more mature code."
"When it comes to Dell PowerStore, I would like to see more integration and more security features included. It's unfortunate that the solution does not feature Flash trace."
"We had some false positives, power supplies failing, and that's really been about it. We had a couple of glitches during some upgrade processes but nothing that was really concerning to us."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"They could make the mNode more user-friendly. Now you need to configure and add nodes by CLI and it’s not really easy to manage. If they created a web interface to do the management of the mNode, that would be great!."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"This solution would be improved if it were made to be more compatible with other products."
"The upgrade process could be better."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"SolidFire should start from two nodes instead of the four nodes. That's the only thing. In a lot of solutions, we have to use four nodes, that's the better thing. But as a starting point, two is better. That's why their starting point is expensive."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF and VMware vSAN. See our Dell PowerStore vs. SolidFire report.
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