We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Dell VMAX All Flash based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerMax NVMe is its replication feature."
"The best feature is the protection - PowerMax NVMe is volume-based and replicates data, so it's very comfortable for us to use."
"It is very stable. We expect superior performance and reliability from this particular storage system."
"The optimization of the cache memory of each engine and the use of persistent memory."
"PowerMax NVMe has made it a lot easier to understand how much we are able to provision. It has made it a lot faster to provision new things. 90% of my time for provisioning has been reduced. Also, it has made it very easy to understand and see everything behind it versus the older heritage, where Dell EMC was very convoluted and hard to get working. Things that used to take an hour, probably now take five to 10 minutes."
"The compression and deduplication are always on. We get more than 4:1 capacity savings using them. The efficiency benefits from compression and deduplication are through a specialized hardware module within the storage itself, and that means there is no overhead to the compression and dedupe."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution's snapshot capabilities and replication are very good features. Snapshots are allowing us to quickly build analytical models directly from production data. This gives us amazing insights into market trends and allows us to build more effective trading algorithms. Replication offers us unparalleled levels of resilience."
"The ransomware protection feature is housed in a separate unit, specifically addressing the top twenty most critical threats."
"The product's initial setup phase was good."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"The initial setup was a little bit complicated."
"The installation of equipment needed support's help."
"Firmware updates are a bit painful because you have to involve their support, as opposed to having the ability to do it yourself."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The price cap of Dell PowerMax NVMe is very high."
"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."
"We had challenges again with the initial setup. I don't know if there was a gap during the requirement-collection phase, but the box was partially delivered to us with missing parts and it delayed the implementation by about 60 days. It was not as smooth as I would have hoped."
"They can make the GUI better, especially for the ones that come out of the box. We did encounter a bit of difficulty in setting up the storage. We had to deploy Solutions Enabler on a Linux machine to be able to fully interact with the storage. They need to upgrade the web interface for the management of the storage that comes out of the box. The management interface for NFS is also a bit old and not very intuitive."
"The configuration part of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Improvements are needed in both partition recovery and scalability."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Dell VMAX All Flash is ranked 27th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Dell VMAX All Flash is rated 8.6. 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 Dell VMAX All Flash writes "With an easy initial setup phase, the tool is useful for multi-site replication and DR". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Dell VMAX All Flash is most compared with Dell PowerStore and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Dell VMAX All Flash report.
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