We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Huawei OceanStor 9000 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."The fact that we were able to set it up, use it, and, for the most part, didn't have to worry about it after we had it set up has been valuable."
"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 guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice."
"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."
"There are also the policies that you set up on replication and purging files, and policies for something called WORM. That's a "write once, read many," where you can't overwrite certain files or certain data. It puts them in a "protected mode" where it becomes very difficult for someone to accidentally delete. We use that for certain files or certain directories, because we're dealing with video and some video has to be protected for chain-of-custody purposes. The WORM feature works great."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) integration with other solutions because of the standard file system protocol."
"Dell PowerScale is a scalable solution. It allows non-disruptive upgrades and maintenance of the system."
"The storage capacity is really one of the most valuable features. Also, the GUI is very friendly and the switches gives high performance. The technology used in storage is RAID which as helped us a lot to expand and store various items ."
"It has many options for scalability, and it is stable."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for 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 solution's rate structure or rate redundancy needs to be improved."
"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 isn't suitable for small environments or small customers."
"It would be nice to see tools like Superna Eyeglass built into PowerScale."
"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."
"The call charges and the management cost should be more friendly. They can also include monitoring and management."
"The handling of data deletion and bulk servers setup could have been more straightforward and easier when dealing with data removal or setting up servers. I believe Huawei could enhance their solutions, especially managing storage, to provide a better experience for customers."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 37 reviews while Huawei OceanStor 9000 is ranked 11th in NAS with 2 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Huawei OceanStor 9000 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 Huawei OceanStor 9000 writes "An entry-level, flash-based storage system designed for enterprise-class applications". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Hitachi NAS Platform, whereas Huawei OceanStor 9000 is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, IBM FlashSystem and Qumulo.
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