Dell PowerPath vs Everpure FlashArray comparison

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The compared Dell Technologies and Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) solutions aren't in the same category. Dell Technologies is ranked #3 in SS , and holds a 15.9% mindshare in the category. Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is ranked #3 in AFS , with an average rating of 8.9, and holds a 6.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 99% of Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) users who would recommend it.

Dell PowerPath

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100% willing to recommend

Everpure FlashArray

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99% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerPath

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

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Storage Software (3rd)

Everpure FlashArray

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

232

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All-Flash Storage (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

Dell PowerPath and Everpure FlashArray aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Dell PowerPath is designed for Storage Software and holds a mindshare of 15.9%, down 16.5% compared to last year.
Everpure FlashArray, on the other hand, focuses on All-Flash Storage, holds 6.6% mindshare, up 6.4% since last year.

Storage Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dell PowerPath	15.9%
DataCore SANsymphony	21.5%
NetApp ONTAP	20.2%
Other	42.400000000000006%

Storage Software

All-Flash Storage Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Everpure FlashArray	6.6%
Dell PowerStore	8.0%
NetApp AFF	6.9%
Other	78.5%

All-Flash Storage

Featured Reviews

Derrick Brockel

Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

A resilient and reliable solution that has many load-balancing technologies and provides high availability

People who want to buy the solution must create a scorecard of Dell PowerPath against other products. They must run database tests. They must consider factors like pricing, performance, ease of use, visibility, and reliability. They must also run tests to understand which product recovers faster. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

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Sowjanya MV

Technical Lead at Wipro Limited

Has improved performance for mission-critical workloads and enabled seamless non-disruptive upgrades

The availability is 99.99%, which is the main factor any customer would need because their data should be available whenever they want to access it. This is one main critical thing. It is very easy to upgrade since Pure Storage FlashArray handles it well. Everything is non-disruptive now; previously, there were forklift shifts, but now that is not the case. Pure Storage FlashArray says no to forklift upgrades. Usually hardware requires downtime, but Pure Storage FlashArray has improved their footprint so that they are not asking for downtime; everything is just a non-disruptive activity, which is why customers are more inclined towards Pure Storage FlashArray. Customers want more of the models in their environment due to the performance they are giving, and everything is in one Pure1 Array console where we can view all the models on one page or just an orchestration tool. You don't miss anything; you have replication, notifications about replication, and details about which host groups replication is happening in and if that replication is successful or failed. On a daily basis, our purpose is to create volumes for infrastructure; our daily activities include creating volumes and mapping them to the host, doing any migrations from a VM, clearing the data stores, and carving the volumes to those VMs. One key factor is the data compression with a ratio of 5:1, focusing on space efficiency, inline deduplication, and the compression Pure Storage FlashArray works on; that is a major factor we can suggest to any customer. Analytical capabilities are crucial. Daily, we check the throughput and consumption, and Pure Storage FlashArray provides predictions for one year regarding usage. This prediction helps plan updates well ahead. For support, we just raise a case, and they follow up and get it done. There is also AI readiness, but with the model R2, we don't have much of that AI readiness. For others, we do have AI readiness that predicts capacity based on daily or monthly trends, enabling us to analyze how much space we need or if we need to expand the disk shelf. From an operational point of view, a good feature is that if you accidentally delete a volume, it will be retained in the destroyed state for the next twenty-four hours, which is not the same with any other vendor. I have worked in this storage domain for the past fifteen years, and this option is remarkable, benefiting any L1 or L2 engineer. Additionally, from a compliance perspective, Pure Storage FlashArray has REST APIs enabled. I have not explored automation much, but from a security standpoint, it is strong with encryption data. If you want to automate, you can easily integrate with all clouds and explore Pure Cloud for scheduling workloads, including volume creation. Customers find benefit in Pure Storage FlashArray's single management pane of glass due to the dual controller and active-active setup. If one of the controllers goes down, all workloads automatically shift to the other controller, ensuring their data is safe and accessible at all times. This is a highlighted feature that any customer desires because their data should always be accessible. For SAN workloads, we use Pure Storage FlashArray because for SAN FC fiber channel, we don't use it; we use NetApp for NAS activities. We have clearly split this, so SAN is for mission-critical applications, while network-attached storage handles file systems. This architecture helps us maximize the benefit from Pure Storage FlashArray due to the significant workloads from this giant retail client. From a footprint and energy consumption perspective, you can see energy consumption from the Pure1 storage portal on a daily basis, and it is very compact. The three models we use consume only three units, which is quite low. From a footprint and data center perspective, it doesn't occupy much space. As everything moves to cloud, there are requirements to avoid excess spending on data centers, and Pure Storage FlashArray is efficient in energy consumption and is environmentally friendly.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The solution offers load balancing, which is great, the overall functionality has been really good, the setup is really easy, and we have found the solution to be quite flexible and very scalable."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration without disruptions."

"The user interface is good."

"We have found the solution to be quite flexible and very scalable."

"This multipathing software has certain features which we normally don't have on native multipathing software, especially in terms of load balancing and the way it captures the IO metrics and boosts the performance of different operating systems."

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that disaster recovery scenarios are very good and easy to use in Dell PowerPath since it is available in a simplified form."

"It provides a high availability and will increase the performance of any server or operating system."

"In the last four or five years, we have not had any issues."

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"The support from Pure Storage Flash Array is amazing."

"It is fast and reliable. It works."

"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over, and we have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, which has been really great for us."

"Reliability and performance are its most valuable feature."

"It has improved my organization in the way that now we have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."

"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."

"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."

"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."

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Cons

"Although PowerPath is very mature and has been on the market for more than 15 years there are still a lot of bugs that have been profiled with PowerPath, specifically, during any OS upgrade."

"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."

"If there is an operating system that is discontinued, PowerPath will now also stop the support for that operating system; for example, in the case of Solaris."

"Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux."

"The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks."

"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The technical support is good but they are not available all the time."

"While I utilize it for data migration, I would love to do that data migration in a GUI from an ease of use perspective."

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"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."

"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."

"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."

"I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds."

"The price is too high."

"The interface lacks the same level of control as some other arrays I've used."

"Some of the issues are that it's probably not on a par with other large storage enterprise type products."

"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."

"Pricing is good. I don't have any issues with the pricing of this solution."

"The price of the solution is fair."

"There are no additional costs associated with the product."

"I rate the product's price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable, and ten is really expensive. Dell PowerPath is an expensive tool."

"The product is a little bit expensive."

"There are no licensing fees aside from the support."

"The solution is expensive."

"The cost has room for improvement."

"For pricing, you have to take into account their performance on deduplication and compression in a $/GB comparison."

"I would rate the pricing of Pure Storage FlashArray a five out of ten. It is expensive but not too much."

"When we bought the unit, we bought per capacity. So, the licensing is per capacity, and the only thing that we have to buy every year or every three years is maintenance. Included in that maintenance is the upgrade of the controllers every three years at no cost to us."

"I don't know the exact cost but it's around $1,000."

"Cost-wise, I imagine that the product's price would probably give you a nosebleed if you were a younger company."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Transportation Company

15%

Construction Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	73
Midsize Enterprise	38
Large Enterprise	160

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Which should I choose: HPE 3PAR StoreServ or Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series?

Both are great platforms, but if you are considering all flash solutions, I would recommend you to consider Pure Storage. It may be more expensive, but it should pay for itself for its functionalit...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashArray?

When comparing cost, I find that the cost is either the same or slightly higher, but that is returned by the ease of management, ease of use, and power consumption in the long run. I don't have exp...

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashArray?

The only thing I think could be improved is price. The price is the main concern for our customers.

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Also Known As

PowerPath

Pure Storage FlashArray

Overview

Dell PowerPath provides advanced load balancing and seamless OS migrations with integrations to EMC storages. It's known for robust disaster recovery and flexible configuration options, ensuring efficient operation across multiple operating systems with high scalability and stability.

PowerPath is key for multipathing, boosting high availability and performance across AIX, Linux, and Windows. It serves storage needs, load balancing databases, and seamless connectivity to EMC storage. The interface is intuitive, with an easy setup process, making it ideal for standalone and virtual hosts. Although it suffers from bugs during OS upgrades and limited compatibility with select products, it simplifies vendor interactions by centralizing support. Users recognize some gaps in pricing, support quality, lack of automatic disc scanning, and difficulties in integrating with other storage technologies.

What are its most important features?

Advanced Load Balancing: Optimizes resource use across connected storage.
Integration with EMC: Ensures seamless operations within EMC platforms.
Disaster Recovery: Provides reliable recovery solutions for business continuity.
Performance Metrics: Delivers insights into storage performance.
Flexible Configuration: Offers customizable settings like Round Robin.
Scalability: Supports growing storage needs efficiently.

What are the key benefits and ROI?

High Availability: Increases uptime across servers.
Vendor Support Simplification: Provides a single point of contact.
Performance Enhancement: Enhances speed and efficiency.
Easy Deployment: Quick to set up with minimal hassle.

In industries reliant on high-performance computing, Dell PowerPath is implemented to streamline processes in storage management and optimize server utilization. It assists in industries such as finance and healthcare, where load balancing and efficient data access are crucial for operational success, ensuring reliable and fast access to critical applications and data.

Dell Technologies

The FlashArray family delivers consistent, high-performance data services across block, file, and object workloads. As part of the Everpure Platform, it provides the foundation for a unified data plane, enabling applications to reliably access, protect, and manage data across environments with simplicity and predictability. With built-in capabilities such as inline data reduction, snapshots, replication, and ransomware resilience, FlashArray ensures efficient operations, protected data, and consistent application uptime.

As the foundation of the (unified) data plane, FlashArray enables policy-driven automation, monitoring, and centralized management while integrating across cloud and on-premises environments. Built on an Evergreen architecture, it supports non-disruptive upgrades and continuous performance improvements over time while simplifying operations at scale.

What Key Features Does FlashArray Offer?

Simplicity and Speed: Easy management and rapid performance enhancements.
Data Reduction: Effective deduplication and compression.
Flash Architecture: Seamless upgrades and outstanding resilience.
VMware Integration: Excellent compatibility with virtualization platforms.
Predictive Analytics: Strong insights for proactive management.

What Benefits Should Users Consider?

Reliability: Proactive support with minimal downtime.
Efficiency: Reduced storage footprint and enhanced data management.
Performance: Faster processing speeds and low latency.
User Experience: Simplified management with Evergreen model.

In industries like finance, banking, and healthcare, FlashArray supports high-performance storage needs focusing on virtualization and database environments. Employed for VMware workloads, disaster recovery, and storage provisioning, it ensures application performance in private or hybrid cloud setups while enhancing management of virtualized environments.

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