We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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.
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"The most valuable features of Dell PowerStore are the support for NVMe and SCM, which provides end-to-end performance and high IOPS, minimizing latency. It is a full-fledged storage solution."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"The way you're able to manage all your PowerStores as one solution is very good for us. PowerStore enables you to federate or cluster multiple appliances with automated load balancing. In terms of management, it's helpful that we can do it from a single interface where we're able to manage multiple PowerStores. When you have multiple PowerStores it works intelligently by running the workloads based on the needs of the infrastructure."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use this frame. I am a SAN administrator, but I was able to train my colleague, who had only been a VMware administrator, on the PowerStore in about half a day. Now he's autonomous in assigning volumes and creating data stores..."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"The product's initial setup phase was good."
"The ransomware protection feature is housed in a separate unit, specifically addressing the top twenty most critical threats."
"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."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"Reporting is an area that could be improved. It's very simplistic sometimes, and some of the very technical guys on my team want to see more of the details and be able to massage the report a little bit better."
"The setup process could be improved. We had some issues regarding configuration and the time it took to do things. It wasn't specifically the people we worked with, but more the process and how it's done. They can work on that."
"Data reduction needs improvement."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"There are certain shortcomings with the technical support team of Dell PowerStore, where improvements are required."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"The customer service and support are bad."
"Dell PowerStore is a good solution overall, but some models could support hypervisors better by allowing for more customization and flexibility for customer needs."
"Improvements are needed in both partition recovery and scalability."
"The configuration part of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Dell VMAX All Flash is ranked 27th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Dell VMAX All Flash is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". 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 PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Dell VMAX All Flash is most compared with Dell PowerMax NVMe and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Dell VMAX All Flash report.
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