Dell PowerScale vs. Dell PowerVault Disk Backup and Discovery (DL, TL & ML Series)

It is well suited for scale out NAS storage. One can use Rest API calls to get relevant data. It can be used in the product SRM, where one can discover arrays from Isilon/PowerScale and can monitor the reports. One can monitor Capacity and Performance reports of the array.

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PowerVault is good for direct attached solutions such as video security, backups and tape storage. We had it as our VMWare storage but dropped it about 5 years because of lack of compatibility with VMWare. I believe it is compatible now, but I still wouldn't recommend it for large enterprise environments.

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• Auto data balancing between nodes while still maintaining great performance
• Directory snapshots
• Universal namespace
• Network load balancing across nodes

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• iscsi
• storage
• and it's simple.

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• In my experience, I have seen a lot of bugs in the oneFS and for remedying it, we need to install patches which requires a node reboot.
• In old isilon OneFS versions, the nodes need to be rebooted every 250 days which is quite less compared to other storage devices.
• The operational cost of Isilon is a bit on the higher side.

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• The solution isn't really for large enterprise solutions except for direct attached solutions.

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Isilon is immensely more scalable than Celerra and gave us better control over snapshots and replication. The addition of global deduplication provides a huge space savings benefit as well.

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couple vendors but nothing to write home about....

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• We are currently researching other vendors for our Medical imaging archives due to issues with space utilization efficiency on Isilon.

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• It has provided a great start for our business. Great entry into our client base.
• Not great when you want to scale.

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