We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and NetApp NVMe AFF A800 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"We're able to get higher-density workloads on the same infrastructure, and we have a smaller physical footprint. The performance is excellent – during our test the bottlenecks are never on the X array, it just keeps picking up the pace to match what you need. The real-time visibility is a differentiator in my opinion."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"The deduplication functionality provided by the solution is fairly good. The speed offered by the product is enough for our organization."
"A particularly valuable feature is its simplicity."
"I have found the most valuable part of Dell PowerStore is the price."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"It's a great product. Integrating PowerStore with the IT workflow is easy."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"Dell PowerStore is an easy and fast tool to work through our company's data."
"The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O."
"We find the product to be very flexible."
"During the use cases of the solution, its reliability and suitability are the best."
"Over the eight years, we've been using NetApp with ONTAP, we've never lost a bit of data, and we've only experienced a few minutes of downtime in that entire time."
"Low latency is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are stability and performance."
"You can easily scale up, and scale-out."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"It is on the expensive side."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"The customer service and support are bad."
"During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us."
"We are looking for the Dell PowerStore to become more mature to maximize our use cases."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"The setup process could be improved. We had some issues regarding configuration and the time it took to do things. It wasn't specifically the people we worked with, but more the process and how it's done. They can work on that."
"The cost of the solution is quite high. It would be ideal if they could adjust it so that it's a but less."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Sometimes, it takes a while to get somebody competent on the other end of the line. They do have engineers in multiple time zones around the world. However, their level-one support is not always the best."
"The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better."
"The support can take a few days to have a response. However, the response that we do receive is very informative."
"The initial setup should be easier, and more like a plug-and-play approach."
"The product’s UI could be better."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 47 reviews while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked 7th in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 10 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp NVMe AFF A800 writes "Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI ". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, NetApp ASA, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Primera. See our Dell PowerStore vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 report.
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