We performed a comparison between Dell Storage Resource Manager, Dell VPLEX, and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."
"It is easy to control the storage."
"The partitions function well for backup storage."
"It's all about ease of use and reliability."
"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."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"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."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"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."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."
"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"Technical support is inadequate."
"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"The initial setup is complex."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."
"The solution could always be more easily scalable."
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