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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."Technical support is good."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"My storage engineers are very happy with PowerMax. They are very pleased with the performance, decreased latency, and dependability. From the team, the RESTful API makes management so much easier for them versus the command line interface."
"The response time, compared to XtremIO, is far better."
"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 a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Based on our experience with VMAX, there isn't any hardware failure or something like that in PowerMax. Performance-wise also, everything is fine. We haven't faced any performance issues or any hardware failure. Its performance is great as compared to VMAX. Its I/O per second rate is higher than the old model."
"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."
"It is a true, stable product."
"The solution has good operability and easy scalability."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to implement and configure, easy to use, and really reliable."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"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."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"Remove the need for physical or hardwired virtual servers to run consistency groups, instead make the expensive array controllers handle that."
"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 to see the rack change. They have defaulted to the standard rack, so our fiber cables are crowded when we shut our back door."
"There are some stability issues that we just recently experienced. We hope the next release will solve these problems."
"The tool is costly compared to other similar products. The product's pricing needs to be improved. I would like the product to include the replication feature in its future releases."
"When it comes to Oracle and database workloads, data reduction could be a little bit better. Some of the competition, like Pure, have post-processes which do additional deduplication and compression on the backside; everything is in-line and then they do a secondary process. It would be a good option if you could start getting 5:1 or 6:1 data reduction on database workloads."
"I think management is where PowerMax is weakest. We're still managing it like we managed EMC arrays in the early 2000s. There's a slicker, fancier GUI that does more things, but at the end of the day, you still have to dig into the command line and issue a lot of the same commands that we still were using almost 20 years ago."
"I would like them to continue improving the management tools and continue moving towards a RESTful API versus CLI."
"The security and reporting could be improved."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Fungible Storage Cluster is ranked 33rd in All-Flash Storage. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Fungible Storage Cluster is rated 7.0. 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 Fungible Storage Cluster writes "Easy to implement and configure but the security and reporting could be improved". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Fungible Storage Cluster is most compared with .
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