VNX [EOL] Reviews

Name: VNX [EOL]
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4 (36 reviews)

4.0 out of 5

36 reviews
87% willing to recommend

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With EMC VNX you'll have the right blend of flash, capacity, and application-aware software. Scale up storage for midrange workloads, optimized for virtual applications and cloud environments.

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Storage Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 18, 2018

Once you establish a replication job, when the file system is synchronizing its data to the target file system, it tends to create a balloon effect where it creates a file system that grows as the new data is synchronizing. It would be very helpful if the replication job could incorporate a self-cleaning job after the synchronization job completes to reduce the size of the file system in the target automatically. Very often, we have to run a script called “SavVolReclaim” to clean up space consumed while the replication is in progress. If the replication job hits its maximum capacity of 16TB while synchronizing, it stops the replication job. By adding this reclaim process natively, it would eliminate additional unnecessary work for the storage administrators. It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption.

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it_user127905

Senior SAN Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 21, 2017

There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore. When you need to defrag a raid group, in earlier array versions of EMC arrays like the CX line all you needed to do was to right click the raid group and select the Defrag option and the array would defrag the raid group. Now with the VNX series arrays, if you need to defrag a raid group it is a multi-step process that is all manual. 1. You need to list all the LUNs that need to be moved. 2. Then create temporary LUNs of the same size and SP in a location not in the raid group. 3. Migrate these LUNs to another location outside of the raid group. 4. Then create the LUNs again back in the original raid group, this will move all of the unused space to the end of the raid group. 5. Migrate the temporary LUNs back to these LUNs in the original raid group. With that being said, with the VNX array, you never have to defrag the space in a Storage Pool.

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it_user238902

Infrastructure Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 14, 2017

EMC could have made the effort to spec the device appropriately. Instead, they low-balled the config in 2011 to make the price tag look alluring. Then, less than 12 months in, we needed to spend 35% of the cost of the entire array to put enough disks in the array to make it both perform and contain enough capacity, which only lasted until mid-2013. The device had multiple issues from 2013 – 2016 and numerous support calls to no avail, until I told them they would lose our business if they couldn’t identify the issue. They finally spilled the beans, years after all of the issues, that the device was not spec’d appropriately for our environment. If they would have been honest about it, instead of cheaping out the config to make the solution appear appealing, this could have been avoided. The competitor’s product was more expensive but would have destroyed the VNX’s capabilities. All they cared about was the sale.

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Valuable Features

"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"From my point of view, the configuration that I can sell is restricted to the EMC best practices. It is hard to make a mistake in a solution. It means the configuration has good performance and scalability options."

Room for Improvement

"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."

Pricing

"Reducing dependency on JavaServer Pages (JSP) could improve the administrative overhead."
"The initial pricing and licensing are reasonable, the yearly EMC is more expensive"
"Pricing is somewhat higher, especially in Zambia, perhaps due to the low sales volume."

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