We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon), HPE 3PAR StoreServ, and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Nasuni and others in NAS."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."
"Isilon is flexible in supporting various data workloads while keeping them protected. Dell continues to release updates and patches which enhance the use of this solution. This includes offering ransomware protection."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features."
"The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"The fact that we were able to set it up, use it, and, for the most part, didn't have to worry about it after we had it set up has been valuable."
"It assists with eliminating storage silos because it provides SMB and NFS protocols. PowerScale has also helped free up our employee's time to focus on other business priorities."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"I think the storage is very good, the way it stores, the thin provisioning it provides, and the data protection. And it's easy to deploy in any environment. We are using VMware. So for me, it's a right click and it's deployed. We can configure and create LUNS very easily with 3PAR management, and the interface is very user-friendly. Easily understandable."
"When we started using 3PAR what we liked was the simplicity of the product. We needed a higher performance storage and, in our support model, we needed to keep the simplicity of the storage architecture, keep it as clean and as manageable as we could."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"The features which are most valuable are the availability of the system and the management."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ is easy to use, fully featured and has a great graphical user interface."
"The tool is fast and easy to use. You can also configure it easily. The product also has good performance tuning."
"The support is very good."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"It offers data compression and people management."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"The thing that they are working on now, and we are following closely is more native cloud integrations. The way that we envision workloads in the future is around moving compute to data instead of the other way around. So, we would like to have a single pane glass to manage storage across a variety of different platforms, including native cloud. That would be awesome."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"The UID mapping and how to configure mapping-related things is a struggle."
"Dell PowerScale needs to reduce its price."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"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."
"We used to have a chat feature available on the support site. It's not available to us anymore."
"If they integrated some functions, as they have on Data Domain with a cyber recovery vault, it would be ideal."
"In the next release, I would like them to make it a little easier to find where everything is in the new console. It now has the OneView look and sometimes I don't think the OneView look is enough. It's too different from the original console that was a separate system."
"I would like to see the ability to be able to migrate to newer versions of the 3PAR without having to take any of our data offline and be able to upgrade on the fly."
"With 3PAR, there is remote copy software which isn't very good."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"The solution must be vertically and horizontally expandable."
"File Persona can be better. I don't use File Persona because it has many problems with my environment. The antivirus that it has is not compatible with File Persona, and that's a big issue with File Persona. 3PAR is not as good as Dell when making a file in the storage. 3PAR for a block is very good, but when comparing row capacity, I get 14% capacity with 3PAR, but with Dell, I get 60% capacity."
"Scalability and management could be improved."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."