We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Dell SC Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The solution's snapshot capabilities and replication are very good features. Snapshots are allowing us to quickly build analytical models directly from production data. This gives us amazing insights into market trends and allows us to build more effective trading algorithms. Replication offers us unparalleled levels of resilience."
"The optimization of the cache memory of each engine and the use of persistent memory."
"The high availability that other systems don't have. In other systems, there is an owner in the storage processes. But for PowerMAX, there is no owner. All the process storage is passed to all nodes without ownership. So, there is no response feature in the storage in PowerMax. In the other systems, there is a response, which is a very nice feature. No systems have such a feature."
"The compression and deduplication are always on. We get more than 4:1 capacity savings using them. The efficiency benefits from compression and deduplication are through a specialized hardware module within the storage itself, and that means there is no overhead to the compression and dedupe."
"The SRDF replication piece is probably the best feature. It's useful for maintaining recoverability in the event of a disaster."
"We are most interested in cloud utilization."
"It is easy to manage and upgrade."
"The uptime is the most valuable feature."
"The interface is easy to use which makes the product user-friendly."
"The performance benefits weren't surprising, we expected that. What we didn't expect were the densification benefits that we got out of going all-flash. We're able to put more applications on the arrays because of how all-flash performs. The way some of the application profiles have responded to all-flash has been really pleasing."
"The solution has a wide variety of valuable features. The data progression works well. We use the snapshot functionality quite a bit and really like it."
"It is easy to use, expand the hard drives, add storage, and set up replication."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replicate. We are running a financial company and it needs to be available 24/7. We can't afford any downtime."
"It has good dedupe and compression. Also, the built-in data migration capabilities are pretty good, as is the federation. When we started migrating the workloads from different storage platforms, like NetApp and XtremeIO, it helped us in moving to that direction."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"Dell needs to offer more midrange storage options with enterprise-class features similar to the PowerMAX."
"There is some room to grow, especially with some of the installation quirks."
"The initial setup was a little bit complicated."
"Dell PowerMax NVMe needs to increase storage and improve scalability."
"I would like the scalability to improve, as it requires additional footprints."
"I'd like to see the dedup and compression improve. Two to one is not very good. We should be getting something like three, four, or five to one."
"Setting up PowerMax with VMAX is always complex."
"I believe it would be of great benefit to work on the customization of the pricing structure for different enterprises and their specific needs."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"In terms of additional features, I would like to see some kind of I/O meter, to indicate what we are using in terms of performance. I would like to see automation with that, where it would give me the trends. I want to know those things easily, to help me know where issues are going to occur."
"While there's always room for improvement in everything, I can't really think of a specific feature of the solution that requires immediate attention."
"Technical support should respond more quickly because the turnaround time is very high."
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and should be made simpler to do."
"This solution could be improved if overall performance was improved and operated with a higher speed and supported a higher volume of RAM."
"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Dell SC Series is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Dell SC Series report.
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