We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Fungible Storage Cluster based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"It's actually very stable"
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"The performance is very good."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"I have been highly satisfied with the resiliency and scalability of the solution."
"First, it's an enterprise storage solution. This is very important for us. Another important feature is replication."
"PowerMax is a compact high-performance appliance. It is one of the best devices in terms of performance specs. It includes an NVMe All-Flash Array."
"It significantly simplifies storage."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerMax NVMe is its replication feature."
"Uptime by far is the most important thing, and also the replication ability (SRDF). Most of the customers who need this type of availability also want the protection of multiple data centers, and it is able to easily switchover workloads to their other data centers."
"The smaller footprint of the device has been really nice. We have gone from eight bays to one bay. Having one floor tile in our data center has been pretty awesome. A lot less power and HVAC cooling is being consumed."
"It has dramatically cut down the footprint in our data center and reduced the amount of raw disk capacity that we needed to purchase."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to implement and configure, easy to use, and really reliable."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"The price should be lower."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integration with various service providers for public clouds."
"The tool needs to improve its performance. Today's applications are demanding a response rate of one millisecond or below. The product should also look into AI integration."
"I would like NVMe to be end-to-end in the next release. Right now, it is not end-to-end."
"Dell should work on their marketing strategies to make the product more visible on the market. They should promote the product's compatibility with IBM, as not everyone knows it."
"The initial setup was complex, and we had experienced people working on it."
"There is room for improvement in the replication. It's an important requirement for us."
"The technical support is lacking. We are working with Dell EMC to get some better understanding of this."
"Although they call it unified storage where you have SAN and NAS, with a NAS implementation on top of a SAN, the NAS implementation is a little complicated and clumsy. As SAN, as block storage, it is very powerful... If they could provide a very good NAS implementation, it would be better, so that customers don't have to look for other simple solutions for NAS."
"The security and reporting could be improved."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Fungible Storage Cluster is ranked 33rd in All-Flash Storage. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Fungible Storage Cluster is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fungible Storage Cluster writes "Easy to implement and configure but the security and reporting could be improved". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Fungible Storage Cluster is most compared with .
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