Dell PowerPath vs Everpure FlashArray comparison

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 16.7% mindshare in the category. Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is ranked #4 in AFS , with an average rating of 8.9, and holds a 7.7% 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

7.4

Number of Reviews

211

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (4th)

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 16.7%, up 11.1% compared to last year.
Everpure FlashArray, on the other hand, focuses on All-Flash Storage, holds 7.7% mindshare, up 6.3% since last year.

Storage Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dell PowerPath	16.7%
NetApp ONTAP	24.2%
DataCore SANsymphony	22.9%
Other	36.2%

Storage Software

All-Flash Storage Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Pure Storage FlashArray	7.7%
Dell PowerStore	13.8%
NetApp AFF	8.7%
Other	69.8%

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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Pros

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

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

"The solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy."

"The product is very reliable."

"OS-aware multipathing is a valuable feature of the product."

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

"The user interface is good."

"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."

"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."

"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."

"The mobile app is very helpful."

"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."

"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."

"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."

"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."

"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."

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

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

"The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."

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

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

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

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

"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."

"Enhanced documentation and beginner-friendly guidelines would benefit users with less configuration experience."

"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."

"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."

"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."

"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."

"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."

"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The price of the solution is fair."

"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 solution is expensive."

"The product is a little bit expensive."

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

"There are no fees for licensing. The hardware is paid for only once."

"No storage device is cheap, but Pure Storage is fairly priced and offers what you pay for. You get all the licenses in the future when you purchase a license."

"We feel that the pricing is fair and the licensing process was easy for both."

"Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."

"Because of the SSD, it is cheaper because I am not purchasing so many disks."

"We are finding the TCO of flash to be lower than SSD implementations."

"The price of the solution is not expensive."

"We have seen a reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO)."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Transportation Company

17%

Retailer

12%

Healthcare Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	63
Midsize Enterprise	36
Large Enterprise	143

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

PowerPath

Pure Storage FlashArray

Overview

EMC PowerPath: Host-based software for automated data path management, failover and recovery, and optimized load balancing. PowerPath automates, standardizes, and optimizes data paths in physical and virtual environments as well as cloud deployments to deliver high availability and performance.

AUTOMATE FAILOVER/RECOVERY

PowerPath automates data path failover and recovery to ensure applications are always available and remain operational.

OPTIMIZE LOAD BALANCING

Adjust I/O paths constantly to leverage all available data paths and to monitor and rebalance the dynamic environment for the best application performance.

STANDARDIZE PATH MANAGEMENT

Simplify and standardize data path management across heterogeneous physical and virtual environments as well as cloud deployments.

Dell Technologies

Everpure Storage FlashArray delivers simplicity, speed, and performance with ease of management and data reduction capabilities. Its resilience and seamless upgrades complement its integration with VMware, while predictive analytics and proactive support enhance reliability.

Everpure Storage FlashArray leverages a flash-based architecture for improved storage efficiency, reduced footprint, and outstanding data management through deduplication and compression. Users appreciate its single pane of glass management and Evergreen model. It supports VMware environments effectively, offering predictive analytics for better operational insights. The system is noted for its user-friendly management and proactive support, ensuring minimal downtime while delivering resilient storage solutions.

What Key Features Does Everpure Storage 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, Everpure Storage 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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