We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and NetApp NVMe AFF A800 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."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 reliability is very good."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The scalability is good."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"A particularly valuable feature is its simplicity."
"Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued."
"Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"Has a great mapping feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It is a stable solution."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"Over the eight years, we've been using NetApp with ONTAP, we've never lost a bit of data, and we've only experienced a few minutes of downtime in that entire time."
"We find the product to be very flexible."
"During the use cases of the solution, its reliability and suitability are the best."
"Low latency is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are stability and performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O."
"You can easily scale up, and scale-out."
"NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is easier to use than some other solutions and the UI is very good to use for day-to-day activities. Overall, the solution has good technology."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"The price should be lower."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"After the smooth launch of the product in our company, only the areas around upgrades are a bit problematic. In our organization, we face difficulties when updating the product."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"The pricing could be lower. It is very expensive."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Sometimes, it takes a while to get somebody competent on the other end of the line. They do have engineers in multiple time zones around the world. However, their level-one support is not always the best."
"Stability is an area with a certain shortcoming where the solution needs to improve"
"The initial setup should be easier, and more like a plug-and-play approach."
"The cost of the solution is quite high. It would be ideal if they could adjust it so that it's a but less."
"The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The support can take a few days to have a response. However, the response that we do receive is very informative."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked 17th in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp NVMe AFF A800 writes "Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI ". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is most compared with Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerMax NVMe, NetApp ASA and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell PowerStore vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 report.
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