We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"A valuable feature is the performance of the auto-tiering. It will move hot data up to your fastest Tier 1 or move your slow data down. Data progression is what it's called. With the auto-tiering you can have multiple tiers, you can have your Tier 1 be either spinning or flash, all the way down to 7.2K. It will change the RAID on the fly so your writes come in at RAID 10. After they sit for a while, they get converted to RAID 5, then they'll cool off and move down the tiers. Your performance is kept going, while the cold data is moved to your slow, non-performance tiers."
"The most valuable feature is the speed for the end-user."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replicate. We are running a financial company and it needs to be available 24/7. We can't afford any downtime."
"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."
"This solution is easy to use."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"This solution is resilient."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"VMAX3 is our main system for storage. All our systems and all our virtualizations are connected to it. In terms of expanding it, we are replacing it with a new system, the PowerMax 2000. So our current VMAX3 platform will be decommissioned soon. We are switching to PowerMax 2000 because we are looking for improved performance. We see it as the best fit for our requirements in terms of the performance and the overall cost."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"The most valuable features are the interface and performance."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"The connection should be better integrated with the network to offer a better view of the system."
"There's always room for improvement in the operating code."
"Dell could improve the upgrading process."
"An issue we had was that the controller went down during an upgrade because of their upgrading the code. One side of the switch was down."
"Compellent comes in the form of a component that's not true of a unified storage platform."
"We had times that we needed a file service solution. We've used FluidFS, but it's a solution that is being transitioned out."
"The ease of use could be improved. It took me a while to learn it."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 3rd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 49 reviews while VMAX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Frame-Based Disk Arrays. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while VMAX [EOL] is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMAX [EOL] writes "Offers seamless data compression and encryption with no impact on performance". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas VMAX [EOL] is most compared with .
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