We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series 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."The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"With federation, you can have multiple systems across sites. You can treat them as one, and with a live migration, volumes don't go down. You can move them from site to site, doing maintenance, and keep your environment up."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"Customers are most impressed with SC's provisioning because you don't need to buy a large amount of storage upfront. It's pay-as-you-grow. It also has solid compression and duplication features."
"This solution is easy to use."
"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."
"It is fast and performs well."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"The high throughput feature is the most powerful thing in this product."
"The Global Copy and Global Mirror features are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"Licensing, especially on the storage line, could use some simplification. It's not terrible, but, for example, with the Isilon series, they've gone to completely a la carte. A la carte is very difficult to traverse, as to what you need. It would be more beneficial, at least from my point of view as a customer, if they did it more like car companies do, where there are package lines"
"I would like to improve the processing ability."
"The administration and support (on the way that they delivered) was a little bit slow."
"The lower model, the 3000, should have duplication. It doesn't right now. It's only from 5000 that this is offered, but it depends on the performance. It could be they don't offer it on lower models because the duplication is too much of a burden to the performance."
"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."
"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."
"We have seen some degraded throughput with mixed workloads. We have been working with Dell EMC to correct some of these latency issues."
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"The GUI isn't as user-friendly as other options."
"The solution should embedded replication switches into the hardware instead of using them externally."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 3rd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 49 reviews while IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is ranked 2nd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM System Storage DS8000 Series writes "Great Global Copy and Global Mirror features with an easy initial setup". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is most compared with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE 3PAR StoreServ.
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