We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and MinIO 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."There are also the policies that you set up on replication and purging files, and policies for something called WORM. That's a "write once, read many," where you can't overwrite certain files or certain data. It puts them in a "protected mode" where it becomes very difficult for someone to accidentally delete. We use that for certain files or certain directories, because we're dealing with video and some video has to be protected for chain-of-custody purposes. The WORM feature works great."
"Dell PowerScale's performance is good."
"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."
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"Dell PowerScale is a scalable solution. It allows non-disruptive upgrades and maintenance of the system."
"PowerScale has made it extremely easy to scale file data across our organization. We have two implementations of Isilon. One is a replica of the other. When scaling, we add nodes to each location and expand the cluster. The process is straightforward."
"The tool's most valuable features are scalability and stability."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) integration with other solutions because of the standard file system protocol."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The initial setup was very easy - one click, and it was installed."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"Very good at object retrieval."
"The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"The stability of MinIO is good."
"The product does save time for our company."
"It performs efficiently compared to other solutions."
"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."
"Data storage performance needs to be improved."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."
"It is a bit higher priced than some of the other systems."
"The management and monitoring tools comprise a disparate suite of products and the roadmap is very unclear. We've got four different products that look after the Isilon, management-wise, and it's a bit of a mess."
"Isilon has limitations on the number of files that can be generated."
"We lost our technical sales reps about two years ago. We haven't gotten one assigned to us and we'd love to have one."
"We used to have a chat feature available on the support site. It's not available to us anymore."
"The tool’s pricing needs to improve. We also encountered challenges while deploying the tool in Kubernetes. The documentation also was not too great. We have currently deployed the solution in a stand-alone fashion."
"The only downside I see is that you do not have a complete picture of an object."
"The monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"There should be the ability to expand the size after it has already been deployed. Currently, you cannot do that. It doesn't support an increase in size. Each time we spawn a new MinIO, we need to track the particular MinIO instance or tenant that has the file. Therefore, we had to create a multi-tenant solution that tracks the MinIO that has our artifacts. It isn't in one single instance. It should have better multi-tenancy support."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"With problems, visibility is hard because everything is in containers. Difficult to get to the logs in order to figure out what the problem was."
"The developer support could be better."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 2nd in File and Object Storage with 37 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while MinIO is rated 8.0. 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 MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and Nutanix Unified Storage, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Scality RING. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. MinIO report.
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