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Dell PowerStore vs Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
1.0
Everpure FlashArray X NVMe cuts costs, boosts SQL performance, offers quick ROI, and enhances efficiency with improved data management.
Sentiment score
5.5
Dell PowerStore offers cost savings, enhanced performance, reliability, and efficiency, providing significant ROI through better resource utilization and data management.
Sentiment score
6.8
Nutanix Unified Storage reduces costs, improves efficiency, and optimizes resources, offering a competitive advantage in total expenditure.
If you wait more than seven years to buy another one, you get a return on your investment.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
If you purchase storage with 300 terabytes, you can easily achieve one petabyte of effective capacity.
Regional Sales Manager at New Horizon Computers
It's been trouble-free the entire time, with very high performance, as it has been designed and built properly.
Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have seen a return on our investment in Dell PowerStore; definitely our cost per terabyte has been very good compared to some of the other vendors that we would have been using previously, and our performance benchmarks have exceeded what we were expecting.
Director of Global Platform at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
For me, the biggest return on investment when using this solution is that we do not have to have much support staff to run it.
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability challenge with previous systems is lessened with Nutanix since we can expand by adding new hardware without needing migrations.
Infrastructure Architect & Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
We are saving approximately 20% to 25% compared with the competition.
Global of Central Computing IT Operations Head at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
Everpure FlashArray X NVMe's customer service is efficient and quick, but lacks Turkish support and direct engineer communication.
Sentiment score
6.5
Dell PowerStore support is praised for responsiveness and expertise but faces challenges in escalation and parts availability.
Sentiment score
7.5
Nutanix Unified Storage is praised for responsive, knowledgeable support, though slower on complex issues, offering cost-effective excellence.
Customers always have their issues resolved promptly.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
Technical support is good at least through vendors, not directly with the principal.
Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I would rate the technical support of Dell PowerStore between nine and ten out of ten.
Solution Architect at CDA
They're responsive, knowledgeable, and have a quick turnaround.
Systems Engineer at a government with 11-50 employees
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Dell support as a ten, focusing on that aspect alone, because it's what allows me to sleep at night.
Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
They come on the call, start troubleshooting immediately, and resolve issues effectively.
Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
They are very knowledgeable, and if they can't solve the problem, they find the answer within a day or so.
Manager, System Engineering at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
I would give the customer service and technical support a ten out of ten.
PreSales at IKUSI
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
Everpure FlashArray X NVMe offers easy scalability and seamless upgrades, but faces customization and latency challenges, rated mostly favorable.
Sentiment score
6.9
Dell PowerStore offers seamless scalability, efficiently expanding storage and performance, and is praised for clustering and integration capabilities.
Sentiment score
7.8
Nutanix Unified Storage offers seamless scalability by adding nodes without downtime, supporting flexible growth and high user satisfaction.
It hasn't broken down anytime in the last six to seven years, despite hurricanes, earthquakes, and power outages.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
The solution's scalability is a ten out of ten.
Pre-Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It scales up and scales out both ways, and as our data keeps growing, it is very easy to just keep attaching and keep growing.
Associate Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Scaling up can be done from a single enclosure that already has two controllers to a maximum of four storage units with up to eight controllers, and a massive amount of storage can be added.
Nutanix at Senior System Engineer
This means you don't have to buy everything upfront; you can buy what you need and add more as you grow, which is advantageous.
Sales engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
These three components utilize scalability tools, enabling storage addition to nodes and supporting independent, linear performance growth.
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy
I find the scalability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to be excellent, and I would rate it a ten based on my clients' requirements.
Technical Lead at Cognizant
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
FlashArray X NVMe offers high reliability, seamless upgrades, and outstanding performance, ensuring stability in business-critical environments.
Sentiment score
7.6
Dell PowerStore is praised for its reliability, resolved initial bugs, effective support, and stable performance across various environments.
Sentiment score
8.0
Nutanix Unified Storage is praised for stability, reliability, seamless upgrades, high availability, and surpassing previous infrastructure performance.
I would rate the stability of the product at seven out of ten.
Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees
When I removed all the cables, it failed over within five minutes.
Consultant
It's quite stable and reliable in general.
Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I have not experienced any downtime, bugs, or glitches, and it's much better than previous technologies.
Storage Backup Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We have not experienced these issues with Nutanix, which I attribute to the all-flash technology, the quality of their platform, and the responsiveness of the hyper-converged infrastructure.
System Administrator II at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable.
Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It automatically triggers tasks, causing performance issues.
Nutanix Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Everpure FlashArray X NVMe struggles with high costs, complex UI, and lacks integration, replication, and efficiency improvements.
Dell PowerStore requires enhancements in features, performance, support, and integration, with users noting high prices and stability issues.
Nutanix Unified Storage requires better implementation, pricing, security, UI, scalability, protocol support, and enhanced reporting, analytics, and customer service.
One way to improve the product is to add an operational assistant that doesn't depend on VMware.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
I would like to see some AI features that would allow arrays to intelligently identify threats or unusual behavior in the data pattern and give an alert.
Cloud Architect at DXC Technology
Storage replication should be essential.
Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Something needs to be done with the caching to ensure that if some issue occurs, there needs to be an ability to disable caching during maintenance to make it static, safe, and good.
CISO Admin at a analyst firm with 51-200 employees
Pricing must also be considered, as Dell PowerStore is quite expensive compared to competitors in the market like HPE Alletra, Huawei Dorado, or Hitachi storage, for example.
Unit Head - Technology Services at Shahnawaz Ltd
The main reason why people move to Pure Storage is because it's simplified.
IT Director at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees
The main concern is pricing, which could deter some customers; addressing this would enhance its appeal.
Senior Solution Software Engineer at Gigamon
The system should move towards AI-driven optimization and enhance S3 object storage capabilities.
Corporate Trainer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
System downtime can disturb the entire ecosystem and impact all applications.
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers value Everpure FlashArray X for robust features despite high costs, with transparent licensing and reasonable support fees.
Dell PowerStore's competitive pricing offers value through all-inclusive licensing and benefits, despite being costly in certain regions.
Nutanix Unified Storage offers competitive pricing, reduced ownership costs, flexible licensing, and is valued for performance and features.
While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits.
Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.
The support can be a bit pricey, but the solution is more cost-effective than anything else out there.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
Likely the cost is $400,000 whereas IBM may be $250,000.
Adv. Service Manager at ECC Solutions
Based on my experience, the cost of Dell PowerStore for around 500 GB of capacity is very competitive compared to any other platform in the market.
Deputy General Manager at HCLSoftware
I asked for a new quotation on a server, and it is quite expensive; it is really expensive.
Responsable Plateformes Et Cloud at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Compared to buying three or four vendor solutions, it is much cheaper.
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The cost has doubled for the same amount of data, which was a challenge when presenting use case justifications for the increased cost.
Infrastructure Architect & Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has definitely helped reduce our total cost of ownership.
Information Technology Managed Services Provider at SCE
 

Valuable Features

The Everpure FlashArray X NVMe offers high performance, scalability, and reliability with excellent integration and robust features.
Dell PowerStore excels in performance, integration, scalability, and security, making it ideal for SMBs and enterprises with critical workloads.
Nutanix Unified Storage offers scalable, high-performance storage with AI integration, cost-effectiveness, seamless cloud integration, and enhanced IT efficiency.
Its data compression feature is the best that we have ever seen.
Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR
Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed.
Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.
We are satisfied with the performance as it is significantly faster compared to traditional storage options.
Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees
This includes storage sharing, adding servers to the service, and the wireless host connection on the network side.
Senior System Administrator at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Dell PowerStore offers good integration capabilities, especially since it helps with backup, which is an important aspect.
CISO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
In terms of whether my company could reduce the power consumption with Dell PowerStore, I would say that my company had a use case with a customer around three weeks ago where their old Dell EMC VNX Storage System used to draw about 2500 watts compared to Dell PowerStore which drew about 800 watts, which is a really a big saving looking at the twenty-four hours and seven days of usage of the system.
Data Center Consultant at a retailer with 11-50 employees
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is appreciated for its fault tolerance and redundancy at the cluster level, which ensures reliable storage of files, folders, and other information accessible on the client side.
Nutanix Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data, such as ransomware threats, provide the ability to detect and back up block-based storage, allowing me to restore repositories or sets of block storage with one button click, which is automatic.
Network Engineer at Alabama A & M University
My experience with using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for data-intensive workloads is that we have many SQL Servers and they perform much better than they did when we used hybrid converged previously.
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Everpure FlashArray X NVMe
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Ranking in All-Flash Storage
18th
Ranking in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays
6th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Dell PowerStore
Ranking in All-Flash Storage
1st
Ranking in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
175
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (4th), NAS (1st), Enterprise SAN (1st)
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)
Ranking in All-Flash Storage
7th
Ranking in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
117
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (2nd), Public Cloud Storage Services (4th), File and Object Storage (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the All-Flash Storage category, the mindshare of Everpure FlashArray X NVMe is 1.6%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell PowerStore is 13.8%, down from 17.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is 1.2%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
All-Flash Storage Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dell PowerStore13.8%
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)1.2%
Pure FlashArray X NVMe1.6%
Other83.4%
All-Flash Storage
 

Featured Reviews

Jaehoon Oh - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at Lambda256
Supports efficient storage management through volume snapshots and offers reliable non-disruptive upgrades
I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could be enhanced. I can see the performance statistics in the Pure Storage console, but it does not show the performance by 4K byte unit. It displays IOPS and bandwidth, but IOPS is about real use, and I want to know how many IOPS are currently running in 4K byte units. I cannot see that IOPS because most storage systems report their performance by 4K byte unit. I want to see Pure Storage performance by 4K byte unit to compare with other storage or other internal NVMe SSD.
reviewer2304864 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vmware Windows Senior Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Resilience has supported proactive management and secured audit readiness across multiple sites
The resilience in Dell PowerStore benefits my company from an auditing perspective because we know we have that resilience in place. I see Dell PowerStore playing a bigger role in the future because we are starting to use it more, and that is pushing it. The biggest return on investment for me when using Dell PowerStore is scalability. Scalability is key. I can amplify that scalability is the biggest return on investment because we have redundancy between two sites; if something goes down, we have to manage it, but we want to do it proactively.
Amarnath Charugundla - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy
Unified management and cost-effectiveness lead to positive experiences and future savings
Improvement is necessary wherein the memory or storage should not breach 90%, because if breached, it becomes unmanageable. We have to set alerts or CPU triggering for 95% for the first warning. Other activities on nodes or file systems should be properly maintained. We must monitor the dashboard for P1, P2 alerts in the Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) file share system including SMB, NFS, objects, and blocks. Attention should be maintained for any alerts such as CPU, memory, and RAM alerts, as exceeding these creates issues within teams. If triggered to 95% and forgotten, it crosses the SLA breach, causing disturbances to application, web, and platform teams. Continuous monitoring on the Nutanix dashboard is essential. Even a highly experienced person in Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) cannot provide a 10 rating out of 10 because it is a vast system. I would rate it eight from my perspective.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business55
Midsize Enterprise34
Large Enterprise87
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise31
Large Enterprise67
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure FlashArray X NVMe?
Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure FlashArray X NVMe?
The price of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is very expensive, though I do not know the actual price because I am using the E...
What needs improvement with Pure FlashArray X NVMe?
I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could ...
What do you think about Dell EMC PowerStore? Is it actually a new product?
PowerStore is flexible, scalable, simple, and performant with market-leading economics for a wide range of legacy and...
How does Dell's EMC PowerStore compare with its EMC Unity XT?
Dell EMC PowerStore is a unified storage platform that has the added benefit of being scalable. The automated managem...
What's the difference between DELL EMC Powerstore and Powermax NVMe?
Dell PowerStore is an all-solid-state midrange storage system. It has many internal elements taken from other Dell of...
What do you like most about Nutanix Unified Storage?
Nutanix has excellent product documentation available on their portals, written in simple, easy-to-understand language.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Unified Storage?
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) helps to reduce the total cost of ownership in general. However, I am getting complaint...
What needs improvement with Nutanix Unified Storage?
I hope Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) will improve the clarity of the licensing uses and enhance the reporting and ana...
 

Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X, Pure FlashArray X NVMe
PowerStore
Nutanix Files Storage, Nutanix Volumes Block Storage, Nutanix Objects Storage
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Fremont Bank, Judson ISD, The Nielsen Company
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JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, Volkswagen SAIC, Brighton and Hove City Council, Foresters Financial, Janus International Group, Cloud Comrade, Serco
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