We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series, Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL], and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"It's very scalable, especially with federation. If you outgrow the number of spindles that a unit can support, depending on the model, you can go into federation."
"Customers are most impressed with SC's provisioning because you don't need to buy a large amount of storage upfront. It's pay-as-you-grow. It also has solid compression and duplication features."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."
"It has been one of the most stable products in our data center."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"Everything is sub-5 MS for us. What I've found is that, with all-flash, when an app from my business is slow, I pretty much know it's them and not me. It leads to a performance conversation that has really hit an interesting threshold point where we are better than what they need. So now we get to have that "refactoring your application" conversation a lot quicker because now the performance on the infrastructure side isn't in question anymore."
"The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"This solution is resilient."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"The most valuable features are the interface and performance."
"I would like to have 100% functionality through the web app."
"The administration and support (on the way that they delivered) was a little bit slow."
"We can definitely see a need for it being a multi-controller system for customers who want to scale beyond the current capability. That's always a downside. A lot of the new systems are scaling vertically, they scale out, and the Compellent, of course, is controllers with shelves under it, so you don't scale out with it, unless you add another one. But if you do, they don't talk to each other, like some of the other solutions that we sell."
"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."
"We had times that we needed a file service solution. We've used FluidFS, but it's a solution that is being transitioned out."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"An issue we had was that the controller went down during an upgrade because of their upgrading the code. One side of the switch was down."
"I would like to see higher compression, dedupe, faster I/O, and bigger drives."
"The exterior display needs to be improved."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction."
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