Dell PowerScale vs. EMC XtremIO Flash Storage (discontinued)

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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XtremIO is particularly well suited to VDI and database usage.

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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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• The storage array is very fast. The performance is great.
• It integrates well into the other ancillary products EMC offers.

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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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• It would be good to have better wizards for frequently performed actions
• VMware integration could be better, so we could report on how many iops a particular guest VM was using.

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This was one area of real disappointment. EMC support was very slow to schedule work like installations and upgrades. Break/fix support was fairly standard. After the Dell merger, things have started improving but there is a lot left to be desired here.

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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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At the time the EMC was selected due to the existing relationship with EMC and the maturity of their product compared to the other vendor's options. However now that the maturity gap has been closed and the storage wars have proven which companies will remain for the foreseeable future, we have decided to move away from the XtremIO and go with an alternate storage company due to the price and cost of ongoing support. The EMC product is still a great product, I just find it too expensive to purchase and maintain in today's competitive marketplace.

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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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• Ease of management is the best feature. You can see performance stats as per your needs
• Cost

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