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."The solution has simplified management by consolidating our workloads. Rather than managing all the different workloads on different storage arrays, Windows Servers, etc., we just have one place per data centre where we manage all their unstructured data, saving us time."
"The product's scalability feature is super easy to use."
"The best thing is that it works. We don't have to maintain it too much; we usually upgrade once a year."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale is its scalability."
"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 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."
"The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"When we started using 3PAR what we liked was the simplicity of the product. We needed a higher performance storage and, in our support model, we needed to keep the simplicity of the storage architecture, keep it as clean and as manageable as we could."
"The 3PAR tool is cheaper to maintain with more storage available."
"The Remote Copy Group is amazing for the replication stuff."
"All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform."
"For virtualization, the failure rate is much less compared to traditional storage where you need more hard drives"
"It's advantageous in terms of the cost, in terms of the performance, and taking up less space."
"We deployed 3PAR in the national and international markets. It's not bad, the solution."
"The product has definitely improved throughput. We are able to more efficiently see patients because all of our medical records and practice management software seems to run faster. Uploading images and charts is a lot faster. Recalling information in the exam rooms is faster. The overall throughput of data, going back and forth, is so we can more efficiently see patients, and it also helps increase our patient flow. We can see patients a lot faster, getting them in and out a lot more quickly."
"We used to have a chat feature available on the support site. It's not available to us anymore."
"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 pricing could be reduced."
"Because of the magic that it does 'under the hood,' it is very difficult to find out within the system where all your storage is going. That's a little bit of a ding that we have on it. It does so much magic in order to protect itself from drive failures or multiple drive failures, that it automatically handles the provisioning and storage of your data. But by doing that, finding out why a file of a certain size, or a directory of a certain size, is using more storage than is being reported in InsightIQ, is very difficult to discern."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is a bit expensive compared to other products."
"We lost our technical sales reps about two years ago. We haven't gotten one assigned to us and we'd love to have one."
"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."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"I would like them to improve it so I can do firmware upgrades without downtime."
"The initial setup was easy. However, we get stuck on preconditions. We were not aware of some of the preconditions."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"We have had a few issues with it. We had our virtual environment lock up a few times on storage-based things. We think we have it sorted out, but maybe it came down to a configuration issue on it."
"HPE could improve by raising awareness when a new product is launched. They must think of ways to better serve and engage with their enterprise customers. HPE is selling enterprise products and mission-critical support."
"I would like to be able to deploy and manage 3PAR within OneView Global Dashboard so we do not have to use the interface for 3PAR."
"We are using a built-in solution in 3PAR. We are using All-Flash Storage, and there are some difficulties with it. HPE has now developed a new tool system to support All-Flash, and that's why we are changing our investment. They must increase its performance. I want unlimited support, which is very important for performance. I am not interested in spinning disks. HPE is developing new storage systems called Primera, but they must be developed more."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 46 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 Huawei OceanStor 9000, whereas HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. HPE 3PAR StoreServ report.
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