We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System 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."I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"We're consolidating two to three arrays down to one which means that our data center footprint has decreased by like 90%. So we're saving 90% of our space, and it also is much better on power and everything else in our data center. And on top of that, the performance is much, much better than our older arrays."
"It is very stable. We expect superior performance and reliability from this particular storage system."
"The performance is very good on our servers. It's superior. And the QoS capabilities for providing work congestion protection are also important because about 99 percent of our servers are production servers."
"It offers a high level of availability, so pretty much near zero downtime."
"The speed and the compatible interface with IBM are the most valuable features of the PowerMax product."
"Technical support has been excellent."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"It has reduced our footprint in different physical locations."
"It's actually shaking hands with the workflow solutions much better than any other storage."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"Setting up PowerMax with VMAX is always complex."
"The initial setup was complex. ESRS is a very complex solution to put into our environment, because it requires external access to the Internet. That's a very tough thing for us to do, because we are a PCI and PII company. We store a lot of data for people which is personal. Therefore, going out to the Internet is not our preferred path."
"The price could be lower, and we are unhappy with the price."
"PowerMax Storage needs improvement in the area of monitoring tools. It should have more functions and more complicated analysis options inside the monitoring tools."
"There is also room for improvement in the PowerMax architecture and hardware itself. They should design the PowerMax on the basis of PCIe 4.0. I would like to see the possibility of an NVMe drive that operates on PCIe 4.0 and not PCIe 3.0."
"I would like the scalability to improve, as it requires additional footprints."
"There is some room to grow, especially with some of the installation quirks."
"We brought up this question to the implementation engineer. We were comparing use cases where a customer is using RecoverPoint, then goes to PowerMax. In our previous setup with XtremIO, we were using RecpverPoint and keeping snapshots for 30 days, every few seconds. With PowerMax, I requested this for every 15 minutes, keeping it for a week. The engineer's answer was, "There will be too many snapshots. It might slow down the system." This is specifically for the use cases where there is RecoverPoint. While PowerMax works with RecoverPoint, and you can use it, there should be some way where you can have even more snapshots and not to worry about performance and system cache."
"It has to be flexible according to the customer's requirements. It has to be aligned with the customer business and the business environment."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is ranked 34th in All-Flash Storage. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System writes "Has a fantastic feature-set and works well with workflow solutions". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is most compared with Dell Unity XT.
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