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"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"The most valuable feature is the speed for the end-user."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"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."
"The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"Performance-wise it's high speed. It's also more stable and scalable."
"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."
"The setup and installation is much simpler now, because Dell has standardized the configure process."
"The product offers high stability."
"The performance is very good."
"The product has great data storage performance with a 100% data security and availability guarantee."
"It is the most stable high-end solution in this area."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"Overall, the solution is strong, easy and fast."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"VMAX3 is our main system for storage. All our systems and all our virtualizations are connected to it. In terms of expanding it, we are replacing it with a new system, the PowerMax 2000. So our current VMAX3 platform will be decommissioned soon. We are switching to PowerMax 2000 because we are looking for improved performance. We see it as the best fit for our requirements in terms of the performance and the overall cost."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"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."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"The lower model, the 3000, should have duplication. It doesn't right now. It's only from 5000 that this is offered, but it depends on the performance. It could be they don't offer it on lower models because the duplication is too much of a burden to the performance."
"Licensing, especially on the storage line, could use some simplification. It's not terrible, but, for example, with the Isilon series, they've gone to completely a la carte. A la carte is very difficult to traverse, as to what you need. It would be more beneficial, at least from my point of view as a customer, if they did it more like car companies do, where there are package lines"
"I would like to see an integrated key manager in the controllers. Currently, it's an external product. It would be nice to have the option of having a built-in key for self-encrypting drive features."
"I would like to have 100% functionality through the web app."
"Compellent comes in the form of a component that's not true of a unified storage platform."
"Overall, I'd like to see more synergy between Dell EMC's higher-tier platforms and their mid-tier platforms. What I have said, constantly, to my partners at Dell EMC is that the clear articulation of the path is really important to us. In that vein, what I'd also like to see is, with the migration strategy that's built into this product, a lot more attention paid to Dell's - in particular - legacy platforms and how we get from some of our legacy EMC platforms onto this platform with a straight-through migration and scaling strategy, not host-based migrations and not piecemeal... Dell EMC would do well to focus more on my ability to skip a generation, rather than having me take individual hops because I can't greenfield my way into a software-defined data center fast enough. This journey of multiple hops is not helpful."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"The cost of the solution could be better."
"The interface should be simplified and made easier to use."
"The solution is priced higher than its competitors."
"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack features."
"The solution is stable. However, there have been some software crashes where we had to restart the system. They could improve the hardware to prevent this type of issue."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"It seemed like every time we turned around it was a statement of work and we'd have to pay for something that our previous vendors would not have billed us for."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"For the support windows to work, maybe they have to upgrade the firmware of the VSP. They changed the hardware or the disk. I don't know if it was the port blade they changed or a VM for a memory cache. Also, replacing the old target with the processor target would be fine. The old equipment is very easy to manage, and I don't have any bad commentary."
"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."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"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."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need 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."
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