Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs Red Hat Ceph Storage comparison

Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Red Hat Ceph Storage

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Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerScale (Isilon)

Ranking in File and Object Storage

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

NAS (1st)

Red Hat Ceph Storage

Ranking in File and Object Storage

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Defined Storage (SDS) (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the File and Object Storage category, the mindshare of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is 8.0%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Ceph Storage is 23.0%, down from 23.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

File and Object Storage

Unique Categories:

NAS

26.5%

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

18.2%

Featured Reviews

Jack Vo

Senior IT Manager at ams OSRAM

Jun 7, 2024

Ensures that data is safely stored and easily accessible, providing peace of mind with robust security measures

Dell has the AI to protect the EMA We must write a script tailored to our specific use case whenever we upload an item, such as a file or an application, due to the demand for storing data for longer periods in cases of broken or corrupted files. With Dell PowerScale, data storage is reliable and…

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Prajwal Kabbinale

Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Jan 12, 2023

Overall satisfied , with easy implementation ,having a notification feature would be helpful

Our primary use case is for integration with OpenStack for block and object storage We use both Red Hat Ceph and Azure storage, for all staging and non-production. Most of the features are beneficial and one does not stand out above the rest. The operational overhead is higher compared to Azure…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution's most valuable features are scalability and flexibility."

"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."

"The solution provides massive performance, scalability, efficiency, and ease of management."

"I don't have to rebuild the cluster to add a node."

"The tool's most valuable features are high density and scalability."

"PowerScale allows us to manage storage without managing RAID groups or migrating volumes between controllers. It has really simplified things. We're not having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. That takes care of itself. We just worry about the data. It's really easy for deploying and managing storage at the petabyte scale."

"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."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the unlimited scalability. The tool has high availability and high storage capacity."

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"Data redundancy is a key feature, since it can survive failures (disks/servers). We didn’t lose our data or have a service interruption during server/disk failures."

"We use the solution for cloud storage."

"The high availability of the solution is important to us."

"Red Hat Ceph Storage is a reliable solution, it works well."

"The community support is very good."

"Most of the features are beneficial and one does not stand out above the rest."

"We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment."

"Ceph’s ability to adapt to varying types of commodity hardware affords us substantial flexibility and future-proofing."

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Cons

"The pricing could be reduced."

"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."

"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is a bit expensive compared to other products."

"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."

"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."

"The solution’s interface and pricing could be improved."

"It would be good to have synchronized mirroring between two clusters without using a third-party program."

"There is room for improvement with the updates. It can take a significant amount of time to do a major OS update. However, even though it takes multiple reboots, the cluster stays up. If we want to apply a newer version of the OS, we have to roll back some of the patches so that we can upgrade. It requires a few reboots just to do that. The cluster doesn't come down, everything is still running, but it's time-consuming, at times."

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"If you use for any other solution like other Kubernetes solutions, it's not very suitable."

"I would like to see better performance and stability when Ceph is in recovery."

"Rebalancing and recovery are a bit slow."

"I have encountered issues with stability when replication factor was not 3, which is the default and recommended value. Go below 3 and problems will arise."

"Ceph is not a mature product at this time. Guides are misleading and incomplete. You will meet all kind of bugs and errors trying to install the system for the first time. It requires very experienced personnel to support and keep the system in working condition, and install all necessary packets."

"The product lacks RDMA support for inter-OSD communication."

"We have encountered slight integration issues."

"An area for improvement would be that it's pretty difficult to manage synchronous replication over multiple regions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is high."

"The platform is not cheap. However, on the software side, you can choose what you want license. So, you can start your licensing with the features that you need, then after buying the platform add some other features."

"It is an expensive product with a high storage capacity suitable for large data requirements."

"Our company finds the pricing high, but it decreases over time."

"Dell PowerScale is an expensive solution compared to other products like Qumulo."

"We use the TNA approach which is a great opportunity for us to better manage the licenses based on how much consumption is available for the different customers so we can use that approach and scalability."

"Pricing for this solution is reasonable."

"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is an expensive solution."

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"If you can afford a product like Red Hat Ceph Storage then go for it. If you cannot, then you need to test Ceph and get your hands dirty."

"The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical."

"The price of this product isn't high."

"I rate the product’s pricing an eight out of ten."

"There is no cost for software."

"The price of Red Hat Ceph Storage is reasonable."

"Most of time, you can get Ceph with the OpenStack solution in a subscription as a bundle."

"The operational overhead is higher compared to Azure because we own the hardware."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

24%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Government

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)?

The solution provides massive performance, scalability, efficiency, and ease of management.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)?

Dell PowerScale is expensive on the start-up side but we can recoup those costs quickly by not having to reapply the savings to other equipment.

What needs improvement with Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)?

The price always has room for improvement.

How does Red Hat Ceph Storage compare with MiniO?

Red Hat Ceph does well in simplifying storage integration by replacing the need for numerous storage solutions. This solution allows for multiple copies of replicated and coded pools to be kept, ea...

What do you like most about Red Hat Ceph Storage?

The high availability of the solution is important to us.

What needs improvement with Red Hat Ceph Storage?

Some documentation is very hard to find. The documentation must be quickly available.

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Also Known As

PowerScale, Dell EMC Isilon

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Overview

Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) storage solutions are designed to help manage data for enterprises of all types. Dell PowerScale systems are simple to install, manage, and scale to virtually any size and include a choice of all-flash, hybrid, or archive nodes. Dell PowerScale solutions stay flexible and reliable no matter how much storage capacity is added, how much performance is required, or how business needs change in the future.

With Dell PowerScale, your data lake always stays simple to manage, simple to grow, simple to protect, and simple enough to handle the most demanding current and future workloads.

Ideal for companies of any size, from small enterprises to multi-national ones, Dell PowerScale storage provides secure collaboration, modular scalability, flexible consumption models, and easy cloud integrations, all with management tools spanning multiple platforms.

Key Benefits of Dell EMC PowerScale Storage

Centralized management: Manage your storage infrastructure from a single unified platform.
Data protection: Dell PowerScale offers security, data protection and replication tools. Back up and protect your data from cyber-attacks with an integrated ransomware defense system.
Artificial intelligence: PowerScale is the foundation for building an integrated and optimized IT infrastructure for AI projects, from concept to production.
Cloud support: Store and manage your data on the cloud and move data between your data center and the cloud. Dell PowerScale runs data-intensive cloud workloads with no outbound traffic costs.
Long-term storage: Dell PowerScale offers highly efficient and resilient active archive storage or long-term data retention for large-scale data archives. With the proven scalability architecture of PowerScale, you can meet your growing archiving demands. Dell PowerScale has a wide variety of enterprise-grade data protection and security options to keep your archived data safe.

Reviews from Real Users

Dell EMC PowerScale storage stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its scalability capabilities and its user-friendly centralized management system.

Rachel B., a chief operations officer & acting CFO at Like a Photon, writes, "PowerScale allows us to manage storage without managing RAID groups or migrating volumes between controllers. It has really simplified things. We're not having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. That takes care of itself. We just worry about the data. It's really easy for deploying and managing storage at the petabyte scale."

Keith B., the director of IT at NatureFresh Farms, writes, "The single pane of glass for both IT and for the end-user is a valuable feature. On the IT side, I can actually control where things are stored, whether something is stored on solid-state drives or spinning drives... The single pane of glass makes it very easy to use and very easy to understand. We started at 100 terabytes, and we moved to 250 and it still feels like the exact same system and we're able to move data as needed."

Red Hat Ceph Storage is an enterprise open source platform that provides unified software-defined storage on standard, economical servers and disks. With block, object, and file storage combined into one platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage efficiently and automatically manages all your data.

Sample Customers

OMRF, University of Utah, Translational Genetics Research Institute, Arcis, Geofizyka Torumn, Cyprus E&P Corporation, Colburn School, Columbia Sportswear, Harvard Medical School, University of Michigan, National Library of France,

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