We performed a comparison between Dell PowerPath and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, DataCore, Dell Technologies and others in Storage Software."The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that disaster recovery scenarios are very good and easy to use in Dell PowerPath since it is available in a simplified form."
"OS-aware multipathing is a valuable feature of the product."
"We have found the solution to be quite flexible and very scalable."
"The user interface is good."
"It provides a high availability and will increase the performance of any server or operating system."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration without disruptions."
"The product is very reliable."
"The solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"Although PowerPath is very mature and has been on the market for more than 15 years there are still a lot of bugs that have been profiled with PowerPath, specifically, during any OS upgrade."
"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."
"Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux."
"The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks."
"While I utilize it for data migration, I would love to do that data migration in a GUI from an ease of use perspective."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."
"The technical support is good but they are not available all the time."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"The price of the solution can improve."
Dell PowerPath is ranked 3rd in Storage Software with 8 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Dell PowerPath is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerPath writes "A resilient and reliable solution that has many load-balancing technologies and provides high availability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Dell PowerPath is most compared with NetApp ONTAP, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN.
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