We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"This solution is very scalable."
"We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"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 supportability of SCME drives for faster data access from the PowerStore and is the most valuable feature."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"It provides a big benefit when upgrading a new VMware environment. For example, in a big environment with 10 to 30 ESXs, you can take everything and put that into PowerStore. So, it is cost-effective, which is very important and has been massive for us. You reduce almost 80% from the hardware and work directly from PowerStore. Building hardware, especially in a big VMware environment, is a big issue for my organization."
"The support is very good."
"The way you're able to manage all your PowerStores as one solution is very good for us. PowerStore enables you to federate or cluster multiple appliances with automated load balancing. In terms of management, it's helpful that we can do it from a single interface where we're able to manage multiple PowerStores. When you have multiple PowerStores it works intelligently by running the workloads based on the needs of the infrastructure."
"Its flexibility is valuable because we have had some moments where we had to adapt, and it has been quite flexible."
"It's actually shaking hands with the workflow solutions much better than any other storage."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"The price is on the higher side."
"There are certain shortcomings with the technical support team of Dell PowerStore, where improvements are required."
"The setup process could be improved. We had some issues regarding configuration and the time it took to do things. It wasn't specifically the people we worked with, but more the process and how it's done. They can work on that."
"The NAS part is very poor. It's very basic. Even Dell EMC has said that to us. We are waiting for version 3 of PowerStore for that. This must be improved and it is in the roadmap."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"The only area I can highlight for improvement is that the 4:1 data reduction target has not been reached. This may be due to an issue with Dell EMC's initial analysis of data compression. As a result, we have had to add new physical disks to reach our goal of total available disk space."
"Could use some additional automation."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"It has to be flexible according to the customer's requirements. It has to be aligned with the customer business and the business environment."
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Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is ranked 34th in All-Flash Storage. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System writes "Has a fantastic feature-set and works well with workflow solutions". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is most compared with Dell Unity XT.
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