We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array 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."We have tons of capacity on it."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The stability is great. It is five nines."
"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."
"PowerMax, with version 9.02, which we installed recently, has some very good features, such as CloudIQ."
"The tool is a fast-performing asset. It can perform millions of transactions within a second. I like the tool's architecture as well."
"The speed and the compatible interface with IBM are the most valuable features of the PowerMax product."
"It is easy to manage and upgrade."
"It offers a high level of availability, so pretty much near zero downtime."
"Enterprise Cloud Storage is the most valuable feature, along with the data services which come with it, plus the deduplication and compression."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"The solution is not cheap."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"The NVMe integration could be improved."
"We have had some trouble with the VMAX-to-PowerMax migration, but the VMAX box will be powered down after the migration. The PowerMax boxes are working fine and we don't have any issues with them."
"I believe it would be of great benefit to work on the customization of the pricing structure for different enterprises and their specific needs."
"Support of the product can be slow and an administrative challenge: planning, scheduling, and overseeing data center access for a Dell EMC rep. One improvement could be to enable a self-maintenance option. The requirements that we go through to get Dell EMC onsite to replace failed drives, power supplies, and other small redundant parts can be unnecessarily complex. If simplified, they could send us the parts, then we could replace them much faster, more easily, and truly within the SLA parameters."
"The GUI interface is very complicated and could be improved by streamlining the number of steps in the process."
"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."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"They should work with the storage engineers to better tweak the management tools to give them improved visibility into their data."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is ranked 30th in All-Flash Storage. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is rated 9.4. 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 Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array writes "Good support, improves performance, scales well, and boosts team efficiency". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is most compared with Pure FlashArray X NVMe.
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