We performed a comparison between SolidFire and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"We can just buy them, scale them as we need on demand, and we don't have to spend so many front end cycles on designing the architecture."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"Templates are already predefined for it. If you're coding it up, it will take two days. You can pick up a template right there from the API, and it just works for you. Implementation done in 10 minutes."
"Greater IOPS, speed, it's all-flash. So seeing that everything is going to all-flash, all SSDs, SolidFire fits right in there with the emerging trend in IT."
"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."
"The simplicity of it."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"The provisioning process is efficient and doesn't demand higher latency, ensuring optimal data transfer performance which is particularly valuable for tasks like data mining, where quick results are essential."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"One of the best features of the VNX is the ability to combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool. By combining small but fast flash drives, SAS drives, and high-capacity but slower NL-SAS drives, the VNX can intelligently move data to the different tiers of storage based on usage."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"The file functionality could be better."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"It was not proactive communication."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"The upgrade process could be better."
"It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"We had some false positives, power supplies failing, and that's really been about it. We had a couple of glitches during some upgrade processes but nothing that was really concerning to us."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
"The user interface needs to be improved. Much of the client feedback involves comments such as "Oh, it's hard to navigate through.""
"There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"VNX can improve by offering flexible upgrade options. It's not possible to add a single HDD to a current array and there are fixed rules to make upgrades."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
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SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. SolidFire is rated 8.2, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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