We performed a comparison between Dell Storage Resource Manager and Dell VPLEX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The partitions function well for backup storage."
"It's all about ease of use and reliability."
"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."
"It is easy to control the storage."
"The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"Technical support is inadequate."
"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."
"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"The initial setup is complex."
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Dell Storage Resource Manager is ranked 5th in Storage Management with 8 reviews while Dell VPLEX is ranked 2nd in Storage Management with 18 reviews. Dell Storage Resource Manager is rated 7.2, while Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell Storage Resource Manager writes "Great features that allow for supervision of storage, management of users and driver-related updates". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell VPLEX writes "It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners". Dell Storage Resource Manager is most compared with IBM SAN Volume Control, NetApp OnCommand Insight and NetApp OnCommand, whereas Dell VPLEX is most compared with IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM SAN Volume Control, NetApp OnCommand and Huawei OceanStor DJ. See our Dell Storage Resource Manager vs. Dell VPLEX report.
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