We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and HPE StoreEasy 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 tool's most valuable features are scalability and stability."
"Dell PowerScale is a scalable solution. It allows non-disruptive upgrades and maintenance of the system."
"The recent introduction of inline deduplication and compression has drastically improved our efficiency ratios to make it an economical product. This solution has also had a positive impact on our employees' productivity because it reduces the amount of admin that our staff needs to handle."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"The guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice."
"Its most valuable feature is the DR capabilities replication."
"The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"The most valuable feature we started using, beyond the initial scope for the solution, is the multi-protocol system that allows you to access the same set of files using different network protocols like NFS or SMB. PowerScale’s Unified Permission Model ensures that data security and access permissions are honoured regardless of whether the client is a Windows desktop or a Linux server"
"The most valuable feature of HPE StoreEasy is the storing of virtual machines."
"I like the tool's provisioning feature and OneView."
"This solution allows me to better and more easily manage user data without impacting my primary storage."
"I like the user quotas, integrations, and separations for storage."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the duplication."
"I can use both the on-premises and cloud storage options. I need to have an APR extension from StoreEasy, and it's that simple."
"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 isn't suitable for small environments or small customers."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's rate structure or rate redundancy needs to be improved."
"It is a bit higher priced than some of the other systems."
"I would like to see increased reporting and statistics functionalities."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"We need some monitoring tools and it would be helpful if they were included."
"When I configure the StoreEasy in a complex environment I have problems finding compatibility with all the software."
"The cluster service is not available in the latest version of HPE StoreEasy."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. In the next release, I would like to access some Microsoft Windows storage server features. I guess the newest version of Windows Server has some restrictions."
"I would like to improve the tool's technical support. I would also like to see the product's hybrid cloud version."
"The support of HPE StoreEasy can improve its responsiveness. Dell support is better."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 40 reviews while HPE StoreEasy is ranked 8th in NAS with 7 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while HPE StoreEasy is rated 8.2. 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 StoreEasy writes "Good backup solution for applications that is also scalable and stable ". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas HPE StoreEasy is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Qumulo, FreeNAS, IBM Scale-out NAS and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. HPE StoreEasy report.
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