Dell PowerFlex Reviews

Our primary use case of this solution is for storage nodes and compute nodes and I like that it is all in one box. It is very effective to use it for our infrastructure. 

Something that needs to improve is that if you want to upgrade just one feature, you have to go to the highest model, which is the All-Flash Solution.

1- there are features like deduplicate and compersion, it's available only in the all-flash solution for Vxrack also auto-tiering and caching not available only in the all-flash scenario in VxRack flex 

2- another way if you have the all-flash box from vxRack (SSD drive), cannot be mixed with normal HDD and the maintenance will be very expensive 

The program is stable.

I believe it is a scalable solution.

I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution. The product really needs better and more support. 

On a scale from 1 to ten, I will rate this solution an eight.

I primarily use the solution for cloud applications and cloud services.

The features that I have found most valuable are the compatibility with VMware, and vCenter that can scale the VxRack. You have a fully hyper-converged solution, so you can easily manage all of your obligations and all of your solutions together on one management platform.

VxRack is useful for more than a data center. It can bring in all solutions together at the same time. You can use them more than just the old way. The old way, you didn't have a rack, for the server you had to go one by one. It's a comfortable solution, you can get the VMware or the other platform, and storage and computing all together, in one solution. So that's why we have this server and use it for the Cloud solutions it provides.

I recommend adding some more monitoring tools. There are no, such monitoring tools inside the rack or the hardware. I recommend adding some hardware. It needs some monitoring. It would be a benefit for the engineers actually. No need for them to go and open the platform with their computers.

It's very stable. If you put any machine, a VM machine, or any application, it will run without any issues, until you shut it down or integrate it with other hardware. There are many nodes that run each application. It's very stable. You don't need to depend on only one node to compute. You get redundancy and a full back up which will give you stability.

It's very scalable because anytime you want to increase a resource, you just add one node, or two nodes or whatever you want to add. It's very easy, it's just a click and play. We have many users. On one application we have more than 150K users. On other applications, we have 100K users. On one application, the minimum we have is 50K users.

Technical support is good. When you purchase it, there is one-year technical support from Dell. You can renew it every year. Dell support is very good. They answer you 24/7. When you purchase good support for the first year, you may not need to renew it if you have good staff, because it's very easy to learn how to maintain if you need anything. It's very easy. So the staff can learn this very easily, in only two months.

For hyper-converged, we did not previously use a different solution. I used a normal server previously. Dell VxRack is the first solution that I've used as a hyper-convergence solution. Before I was using the HP server and another server. But they are not hyper-converged, they are normal servers.

The setup was very straightforward. That's also the one features of the Vx series. All Vx series are easy to install, easy to configure, and easy to manage. The deployment only took one day.

The implementation was done by our team, me and my team.

I chose Dell because of the price. It's fair enough pricing for a first-time company to purchase it - especially VxRack. Otherwise, Nutanix and HP are expensive. More expensive than Dell VxRack. In general, the companies purchase the solutions and the partner companies are responsible to deploy it and install it. But in our case, we depend on ourselves to deploy and install it. So we don't add more cost, only the standard licensing cost.

This product offers stability and easy management. It's easy to learn how to work with the containers, especially for the Cloud solution.

We only need only two staff to run it, two engineers with one team leader. The memory, the CPU, the bandwidth, the storage, everything is monitored, and controlled. You only need one staff member to monitor it in real-time.

The traditional way, the servers were stored alone or next to each together. But currently, this solution is much easier. The modern way is very, very easy.

I would advise that if you want a cost-effective hyper-converged solution, go with VxRack. The support is good and it's easy to manage and deploy. It's a cost-effective solution but it also depends on what the use case is. There may be a reason to choose other solutions over this solution.

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.

We use VxFlex for our banking applications.

The most valuable feature is high availability.

I would like to see a more user-friendly interface.

We have been using VxFlex for about a year and a half.

VxFlex is a very stable product.

The scalability is very good.

The Dell EMC technical support is excellent.

The pricing for this solution is good.

We are planning to upgrade this system in three years, but in the meantime, we are happy with VxFlex.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We primarily use three or four modules for the city running on a plant.

The pricing of the solution could be lower.

The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials.

It would be helpful if they could simplify the solution for those that are new to the product, so that anyone could use it quite easily.

The solution is quite stable.

The solution is very scalable. We have about 400 people using the solution currently and we do plan to incrementally increase usage by about 10% a year.

The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment took about two months.

We used a consultant who helped us with the implementation.

We use the on-premises deployment model.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.