We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and SolidFire 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 back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"It has good stability for our company."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"You can add compute and capacity independently. We have sized the solution based on our current needs, but in the future we can choose to increase capacity if we grow our activity in the market. And if we have more business in our monetary system, we can increase compute. The ability to choose what we increase is a good feature."
"I like the performance of the PowerStore. When you talk about PowerStore, it's mainly about flash systems and high-end IOPS. The 1000T is a midsize box, in terms of the way the vendor positions it, but it is more than enough for our needs."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"When compared to Pure Storage, Dell PowerStore's cost was quite attractive."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"Has a great mapping feature."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"The most valuable features of Dell PowerStore are the support for NVMe and SCM, which provides end-to-end performance and high IOPS, minimizing latency. It is a full-fledged storage solution."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"The square footage for doing development is at a premium when dealing with government networks. To be able to put a lot of IOPS in a lot of high-speed performing drives in a very small location which requires very little HVAC with very little power, it is very valuable to us."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"Templates are already predefined for it. If you're coding it up, it will take two days. You can pick up a template right there from the API, and it just works for you. Implementation done in 10 minutes."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"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 price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"You cannot delegate permissions."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"The price is on the higher side."
"Reporting is an area that could be improved. It's very simplistic sometimes, and some of the very technical guys on my team want to see more of the details and be able to massage the report a little bit better."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"There is no Synchronize replication feature on the storage."
"It was very new when we first deployed it a year ago. Even the upgrade processes and knowing what to expect, as well as documentation, could be more robust."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
"I would like to see integration with the cloud, number one. Being able to spin SolidFire in the cloud."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF and VMware vSAN. See our Dell PowerStore vs. SolidFire report.
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