We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Nutanix Unified Storage 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."The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features."
"Ability to scale the number of nodes without having to build additional clusters."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"Our users are able to easily roll back snapshots without going through IT."
"The best thing is that it works. We don't have to maintain it too much; we usually upgrade once a year."
"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."
"It has allowed us to have more consistent quality controls. It has also allowed us to expand the number of servers in clients processing and accessing data, allowing us to get a lot bigger projects out the door."
"For maximizing storage utilization, PowerScale is great. When you write the data to it, it spreads it out to all the nodes, so you get all the performance from the entire pool."
"The scalability, ease of use, and technical support are the most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage."
"My opinion is that this solution has very good stability."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is a simple, user-friendly, and stable solution."
"The solution is simple and robust."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. With a few clicks, you can stand up your storage. It reduces the overall life cycle of deployment within the ecosystem."
"It is a highly scalable solution."
"Nutanix Volumes is a perfectly stable product."
"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"The UID mapping and how to configure mapping-related things is a struggle."
"Because of the magic that it does 'under the hood,' it is very difficult to find out within the system where all your storage is going. That's a little bit of a ding that we have on it. It does so much magic in order to protect itself from drive failures or multiple drive failures, that it automatically handles the provisioning and storage of your data. But by doing that, finding out why a file of a certain size, or a directory of a certain size, is using more storage than is being reported in InsightIQ, is very difficult to discern."
"It would be nice to see tools like Superna Eyeglass built into PowerScale."
"I'd like to see more Iceland products in the cloud so that we can port our data into different environments if needed. I would also like to see a virtual appliance or software-defined Iceland product."
"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."
"The solution's rate structure or rate redundancy needs to be improved."
"The solution can be a bit complex for those not well versed in the technology."
"Security is an area for improvement. When there are vulnerabilities, there needs to be a faster approval process. The solution needs to automatically target the vulnerabilities and not waste too much time."
"The solution is very expensive."
"One thing I'd appreciate is having a desktop application similar to what VMware offered."
"The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better."
"The solution should increase its storage capabilities."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"We have had to deal with some infrastructure and general cluster issues but these issues don't impact storage."
"The only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 2nd in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. 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 Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and VAST Data, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS, Qumulo and VAST Data. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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