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As of May 2025, the mindshare of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) in the NAS category stands at 17.8%, up from 17.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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System Team Leader at Deakin University
Verified user of Dell PowerScale (Isilon)
Nov 8, 2020
Product version discussed: Gen6 and OneFS A2
As you add more nodes in a cluster, you get more effective utilisation

Pros

"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."

Cons

"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. "
CS
Storage & Data Protection Specialist at General Dynamics Land Systems
Verified user of Dell PowerScale (Isilon)
May 20, 2025
User interface and scripting enable automation, providing consistent support

Pros

"My experience when deploying Dell PowerScale (Isilon) was very straightforward, as we had Dell come on site to do all the actual setup, which was a big help."

Cons

"I would want to see more AI features with Dell PowerScale (Isilon)."
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Senior System Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Dell PowerScale (Isilon)
May 20, 2025
Accessibility and configurability expand capabilities for unstructured data solution

Pros

"Certainly, we have seen return on investment and peace of mind, especially with our two clusters that are linked together, where one is a disaster recovery solution for the other. "

Cons

"If I could improve one thing on Dell PowerScale (Isilon), it would be better object storage as it recently breached into S3, and that capability could be broadened."
MH
IT Manager at Regional Health Services
Verified user of Dell PowerScale (Isilon)
Dec 30, 2024
Product version discussed: The hardware is the A200, H500, and H700.
Snapshot feature enhances data protection and malware monitoring

Pros

"Eyeglass is used to monitor for malware, which is very useful for us."

Cons

"Improvements could be made to reduce the costs and the high level of knowledge needed to maintain and use them. "
UB
Storage Architect at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
Verified user of Dell PowerScale (Isilon)
May 20, 2025
Scalable and reliable data management enables seamless growth across extensive storage

Pros

"My advice to other companies considering Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is that it takes a little time to understand the product, but once you have it set up and running, it will run stable for all its lifetime."

Cons

"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) could improve in terms of having some problems with using IPv6 and IPv4 on the same namespace at the same time, which is one of our biggest problems as you have to do some really bad workarounds to get that working."
KB
Director of IT at NatureFresh™ Farms
Verified user of Dell PowerScale (Isilon)
Apr 21, 2022
Product version discussed: 9.0
Allows us to see everything as one large volume, instead of having multiple volumes all over the place

Pros

"The single pane of glass for both IT and for the end-user is a valuable feature. On the IT side, I can actually control where things are stored, whether something is stored on solid-state drives or spinning drives... The single pane of glass makes it very easy to use and very easy to understand. We started at 100 terabytes and we moved to 250 and it still feels like the exact same system and we're able to move data as needed."

Cons

"There aren't many templates still coming out for it. They need to provide templates so we can copy and paste what we've done in the past to future, new things."
MK
Senior Engineer at Continental Tire
Verified user of Dell PowerScale (Isilon)
Feb 3, 2025
Efficiently manages data across locations with seamless cost-saving features

Pros

"The solution allows me to use SSMDS to store data for end users and share it within different locations. "

Cons

"Dell's customer service needs improvement. "
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High-Performance Computing Services Manager at The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Verified user of Dell PowerScale (Isilon)
Feb 16, 2022
Simplified data management, tremendously reducing our users’ cognitive overhead

Pros

"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"

Cons

"The only thing that I think PowerScale could do better is improving the HTTP data access protocol. At the present, you cannot protect access to data via HTTP or HTTPS the same way that you can secure data access through other protocols like NFS or SMB[...]the Unified Permission Model that would allow a user to authenticate before being able to access a private file, does not apply. "