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."Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"I've found the stability to be very good."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"It is fast and performs well."
"We replicate between SAN to SAN for a lot of features and supportability. It also helps us when we want to upgrade to a newer SC Series or move the data from one data center to another."
"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."
"It has good dedupe and compression. Also, the built-in data migration capabilities are pretty good, as is the federation. When we started migrating the workloads from different storage platforms, like NetApp and XtremeIO, it helped us in moving to that direction."
"They have a feature called Live Migrate; it's been very, very useful."
"The most valuable features are the interface and performance."
"This solution is resilient."
"We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"Snapshots in VMware. You can’t do snapshots since the storage itself does that. Therefore, some apps (Veeam, for example) don’t work well with this kind of tiering storage."
"This solution could be improved if overall performance was improved and operated with a higher speed and supported a higher volume of RAM."
"It's not very efficient anymore. There are better products out there."
"What I understand is that this is a 13 year old architecture, so it has lived its life and they're phasing it out. Honestly, we were initially struggling with the integration with VMware (but it was fixed with the VMware 6.5) and, then, it was around a 10GB network. At that time, it had the longevity to go to 100GB as well. It got us thinking about, when we go into the containerized architecture, what do we need to do to fix the infrastructure?"
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"Compellent comes in the form of a component that's not true of a unified storage platform."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and should be made simpler to do."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to 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."
"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."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"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 cluster support should be improved."
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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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