We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Dell VMAX All Flash 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 feature is replication."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"This solution is very scalable."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The response time, compared to XtremIO, is far better."
"The optimization of the cache memory of each engine and the use of persistent memory."
"The solution has good operability and easy scalability."
"Enterprise Cloud Storage is the most valuable feature, along with the data services which come with it, plus the deduplication and compression."
"It has reduced our footprint in different physical locations."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerMax NVMe is its replication feature."
"We are able to provide storage at the right service levels without overmanaging it."
"The ransomware protection feature is housed in a separate unit, specifically addressing the top twenty most critical threats."
"The product's initial setup phase was good."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"I believe it would be of great benefit to work on the customization of the pricing structure for different enterprises and their specific needs."
"The technical support is lacking. We are working with Dell EMC to get some better understanding of this."
"I would like to see more development in the cloud environment. It would be good if it comes in the cloud kind of setup."
"The tool needs to improve its performance. Today's applications are demanding a response rate of one millisecond or below. The product should also look into AI integration."
"The price cap of Dell PowerMax NVMe is very high."
"I would like a more informative CloudIQ for iOS. What you can see via the web UI significantly differs from what you can see via the web application."
"The installation of equipment needed support's help."
"Remove the need for physical or hardwired virtual servers to run consistency groups, instead make the expensive array controllers handle that."
"The configuration part of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Improvements are needed in both partition recovery and scalability."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Dell VMAX All Flash is ranked 27th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Dell VMAX All Flash is rated 8.6. 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 VMAX All Flash writes "With an easy initial setup phase, the tool is useful for multi-site replication and DR". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Dell VMAX All Flash is most compared with Dell PowerStore and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Dell VMAX All Flash report.
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