We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and HPE StoreEasy 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."This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"It has allowed us to have more consistent quality controls. It has also allowed us to expand the number of servers in clients processing and accessing data, allowing us to get a lot bigger projects out the door."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) integration with other solutions because of the standard file system protocol."
"The tool's most valuable features are scalability and stability."
"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."
"It's easy to manage. The web UI is very intuitive, and there's CLI also that you can use to manage it."
"Its most valuable feature is the DR capabilities replication."
"This solution allows me to better and more easily manage user data without impacting my primary storage."
"The most valuable feature of HPE StoreEasy is the storing of virtual machines."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the duplication."
"I like the tool's provisioning feature and OneView."
"I like the user quotas, integrations, and separations for storage."
"I can use both the on-premises and cloud storage options. I need to have an APR extension from StoreEasy, and it's that simple."
"Its configuration needs to be more straightforward."
"The solution can be a bit complex for those not well versed in the technology."
"Data storage performance needs to be improved."
"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."
"Additional metadata reporting would be great. We have to use a separate tool to report on that. We would like to view the age of data and how long it has been since someone has accessed a file."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."
"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."
"Isilon has limitations on the number of files that can be generated."
"The support of HPE StoreEasy can improve its responsiveness. Dell support is better."
"We need some monitoring tools and it would be helpful if they were included."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. In the next release, I would like to access some Microsoft Windows storage server features. I guess the newest version of Windows Server has some restrictions."
"The cluster service is not available in the latest version of HPE StoreEasy."
"I would like to improve the tool's technical support. I would also like to see the product's hybrid cloud version."
"When I configure the StoreEasy in a complex environment I have problems finding compatibility with all the software."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 37 reviews while HPE StoreEasy is ranked 8th in NAS with 7 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while HPE StoreEasy is rated 8.2. 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 StoreEasy writes "Good backup solution for applications that is also scalable and stable ". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas HPE StoreEasy is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Qumulo, FreeNAS, IBM Scale-out NAS and HPE 3PAR StoreServ. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. HPE StoreEasy report.
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