We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage 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."
"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."
"Its scalability has been huge for us."
"The solution's scalability is very good."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"It has allowed us to have more consistent quality controls. It has also allowed us to expand the number of servers in clients processing and accessing data, allowing us to get a lot bigger projects out the door."
"Our users are able to easily roll back snapshots without going through IT."
"PowerScale allows us to manage storage without managing RAID groups or migrating volumes between controllers. It has really simplified things. We're not having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. That takes care of itself. We just worry about the data. It's really easy for deploying and managing storage at the petabyte scale."
"The most important point is the simplicity of the API integration. We can leverage the API integrations and connect our hybrid-cloud network environment with Nutanix's cloud storage."
"The management interface is great and you have handy access to several details about your file shares."
"The most valuable feature is the unified dashboard, as it allows us to easily observe everything from a single location."
"What I found to be the most valuable features were better performance and uptime."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage are the unified dashboard and the ease of administration."
"We have been able to save local disk space by using Data Lens. We upload 18 GB to the cloud and are able to save 20% to 25%."
"The solution is simple and robust."
"The real-time alerts generated by this system enable us to swiftly address and mitigate such threats."
"The product needs to improve CLI since commands are complex. The search option is also difficult since you must give the full path."
"The replication could lend itself to some improvement around encryption in transit and managing the racing of large volumes of data. The process of file over and file back can be tedious. Hopefully, you never end up going into a DR. If you do go into a DR, you know the data is there on the remote site. However, in terms of the process of setting up the replicates and filing them back, that is just very tedious and could definitely do with some improvement."
"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."
"Dell PowerScale needs to reduce its price."
"Its configuration needs to be more straightforward."
"The solution can be a bit complex for those not well versed in the technology."
"I'd like to see more Iceland products in the cloud so that we can port our data into different environments if needed. I would also like to see a virtual appliance or software-defined Iceland product."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"The GUI is easy to use, but it's complex to do tasks from the command line. That is one way they could simplify things for the engineers. People tend to use a graphical interface more than the command line interface. If anything goes wrong, we need to do troubleshooting from the CLI. It would be nice if there were more ways to fix issues within the GUI."
"Lowering the price would improve this product."
"I would like to see the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That could definitely be a major breakthrough in providing a unified, seamless experience for end-users. It could reduce costs as well as human effort."
"From a management side, the one thing I would prefer is if it were a bit less expensive for smaller enterprises. It's a bit costly. If they provided flexible modules where you could pick and choose features, and only pay for what you use, that would be an improvement."
"We have had to deal with some infrastructure and general cluster issues but these issues don't impact storage."
"We have some problems with Nutanix Unified Storage's support because they asked us to change our hardware."
"The only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
"One thing I'd appreciate is having a desktop application similar to what VMware offered."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 3rd in File and Object Storage with 40 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. 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 Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and MinIO, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS, Qumulo and VAST Data. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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