We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"Technical support is good."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"When compared to Pure Storage, Dell PowerStore's cost was quite attractive."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"The support is very good."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerStore is the all-NVMe flash storage. This is the most powerful feature of this series. It supports compression and duplication leads."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"It is a stable solution."
"I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The hardware and software of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy for us to use."
"Some of the valuable features include MetroCluster switchover, in terms of disaster recovery, it is easy to use, and flexible."
"We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"The file functionality could be better."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"We would consider this solution if the pricing is competitive with other options, as it offers a very good solution. However, the current price is slightly higher than the competition."
"PowerStore's management console could be improved."
"I have not seen anything specific. The only thing I can think of that needs improvement is the price."
"When it comes to Dell PowerStore, I would like to see more integration and more security features included. It's unfortunate that the solution does not feature Flash trace."
"The support is not very good."
"This solution has limited storage."
"Their problems are on the software and the controlling of the storage where they lack segmentation and federation."
"We have used IBM previously. We found that the storage from IBM was poor and we chose NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays because it can scale very easily."
"The solution's technical support is not as good as it is supposed to be since you have to push them to get support."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"As far as the manageability, being able to port between the two and have to do less training in-house from a customer point of view, that would be the part to improve."
"I would like to shrink it more, if we can. The smaller, the better."
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Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, HPE Primera and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell PowerStore vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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