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DDN SFA NVMe Storage (DDN SFA200X2/SFA400X2) vs. Dell PowerScale

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DDN SFA NVMe Storage (DDN SFA200X2/SFA400X2)
Score 0.0 out of 10
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DDN Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) appliances, available in the SFA200NV and SFA400NV editions, provide a scalable flash storage solution.N/A
Dell PowerScale
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Dell Technologies presents Dell PowerScale (replacing EMC Isilon) as a scale-out NAS solution and server technology that provides the flexibility of a software-defined architecture with accelerated hardware innovations to harness the value of data. Isilon Systems was acquired by EMC in 2010; some EMC Isilon NAS appliances are still available and supported under the PowerScale brand.N/A
Pricing
DDN SFA NVMe Storage (DDN SFA200X2/SFA400X2)Dell PowerScale
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DDN SFA NVMe Storage (DDN SFA200X2/SFA400X2)Dell PowerScale
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Free/Freemium Version
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Community Pulse
DDN SFA NVMe Storage (DDN SFA200X2/SFA400X2)Dell PowerScale
Considered Both Products
DDN SFA NVMe Storage (DDN SFA200X2/SFA400X2)

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Dell PowerScale
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Anonymous
Chose Dell PowerScale
Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays and XtremIO Flash Storage
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Anonymous
Chose Dell PowerScale
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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Anonymous
Chose Dell PowerScale
Raw disk space vs. logical disk space ratio was significantly better on the Isilon. Fast cache using SSD drives for faster searching is available on the Isilon but not available on the Overland solution. Isilon solution included faster backend switching between nodes.
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DDN SFA NVMe Storage (DDN SFA200X2/SFA400X2)Dell PowerScale
Small Businesses
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Score 8.9 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
DDN SFA NVMe Storage (DDN SFA200X2/SFA400X2)Dell PowerScale
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User Testimonials
DDN SFA NVMe Storage (DDN SFA200X2/SFA400X2)Dell PowerScale
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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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Pros
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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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Cons
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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.
Vishal Ranjan Srivastav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vishal Ranjan Srivastav
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Alternatives Considered
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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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Return on Investment
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  • We are currently researching other vendors for our Medical imaging archives due to issues with space utilization efficiency on Isilon.
Kevin Blackburn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kevin Blackburn
Storage Engineer
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