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."Dell PowerScale's performance is good."
"It's easy to manage. The web UI is very intuitive, and there's CLI also that you can use to manage it."
"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."
"The solution's scalability is very good."
"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."
"The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"The single pane of glass for both IT and for the end-user is a valuable feature. On the IT side, I can actually control where things are stored, whether something is stored on solid-state drives or spinning drives... The single pane of glass makes it very easy to use and very easy to understand. We started at 100 terabytes and we moved to 250 and it still feels like the exact same system and we're able to move data as needed."
"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."
"With the new flash arrays, 3PAR has improved our performance."
"We have had it for about two years and had zero problems with it."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"We also use dynamic optimization to go between tiers."
"I found it easy to deploy and simple to configure the storage."
"Resilience and reliability, unmatched. They take good care of us."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. If somebody comes to us who needs an application with performance, we have that already formulated."
"Data storage performance needs to be improved."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"The product needs to improve CLI since commands are complex. The search option is also difficult since you must give the full path."
"We had some issues with level 1 support. We had to fight with them on repeated issues. There is room for improvement in level 1 support."
"The solution can be a bit complex for those not well versed in the technology."
"Some improvements to the NFS support would be of interest to us."
"Isilon has limitations on the number of files that can be generated."
"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."
"HP has several integration elements that work with other vendor storage products. I'd like to see a greater expansion on that so that a customer can do a more seamless migration from other vendor products."
"...sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected."
"Cloud integration could be better. They can also add an NVMe to port to that. I would like to see NVMe in the next release. That's the future or the near future for storage. That will give us a real high throughput and some performance."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"Here in Algeria, we are facing a lot of trouble finding partners and getting support from HPE. There should be better support here in our country."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"I would like to see compatibility with NVMe."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 39 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 NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, 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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