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."Its most valuable feature is the DR capabilities replication."
"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."
"Ability to scale the number of nodes without having to build additional clusters."
"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 most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) integration with other solutions because of the standard file system protocol."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"It's easy to manage. The web UI is very intuitive, and there's CLI also that you can use to manage it."
"Its scalability has been huge for us."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario."
"With the support that our organization has, I can talk to someone right away if I have an issue. It has been very good."
"The most valuable feature when we purchased it was that it was a four-node system."
"For virtualization, the failure rate is much less compared to traditional storage where you need more hard drives"
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"I like that 3PAR can remake the disk online. That's one of the best features because when we first started, that was the best. The team provisioning feature was also a good one. Those features are the best for me, provisioning and online optimization, and the tier you can have for storage."
"They are using Ansible to automate the provisioning, so that simplifies the day-to-day operations."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is a bit expensive compared to other products."
"Its configuration needs to be more straightforward."
"The UID mapping and how to configure mapping-related things is a struggle."
"The solution can be a bit complex for those not well versed in the technology."
"The product needs to improve CLI since commands are complex. The search option is also difficult since you must give the full path."
"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."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"The only drawback on it is that tech support seems really busy. We get a critical notification when an important patch comes out, but sometimes it's a month before we can get this critical piece on because they just don't have time on their schedules to do it sooner."
"The price is a little bit high."
"With 3PAR, there is remote copy software which isn't very good."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
"In new releases, I'd really like to see it more targeted towards hyper-converged. They are working that way with Greenlake and integrating their own "build your own" expansion environment within 3PAR."
"This product has come to the end of its lifecycle."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"The GUI interface could be improved. I have been having trouble with one issue in particular. If you look at the DC and DR, if there is a communication break and the link went down—so the data is not replicating from DC to DR—there is no way to find out how much data is ready for transmission. Only the size of the data that needs to be transferred after the link comes up. If the firewall link is down, there is no way of seeing how much data is waiting to be transferred. This is a weak point of 3PAR."
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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