Dell PowerMax NVMe Implementation Team
The internal team deployed it. It took around a day to deploy the solution completely. We installed it in the physical location, but Dell support has to initialize the storage.
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VijayShankar
Senior Administrator/IT Systems & Cloud Operations at Etisalat
It took two to three hours to deploy Dell PowerMax NVMe.
View full review »An implementation engineer, as a technical engineer, will assist with the technical configuration. There are multiple choices. We might need one engineer for each product, depending on the integration. And for the cluster, it's usually multiple engineers. It's a team effort.
Moreover, when it comes to maintenance, if we are already using it, we can raise any new issues and open cases with the vendor's billing team to double-check. For example, if there is any issue with one or two ports, we can utilize this feature.
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Dell PowerMax NVMe
March 2024
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reviewer1852083
Senior Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
From Dell, there was a couple of hardware personnel and then an implementer. From my side, it was just me and one other staff member.
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Paul Croteau
Senior Solution Architect at Rackspace
We work hand in hand with Dell EMC. The implementation strategy is just providing the best possible quality of storage equipment with the features that our customers need. The features that they need constantly change so we need the ability to adapt. Our implementation strategy is to work with a platform that is dependable and flexible, and we have been successful with Dell EMC.
View full review »The basic deployment can be done in one day, as it easily integrates with existing Dell EMC storage platforms and software. Usually, it will require following certain steps regarding the configuration and installment in the data center of the customer, connecting the storage to the infrastructure, and initializing it.
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Martin Gonzalez
Solution Administrator at Telcel
We received help from EPS Consulting.
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Feisal Anooar
VP Global Markets, Global Head of Storage at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We did not use an integrator, consultant, or implementor during deployment. We worked with a solutions architect to build the configuration. We then worked with our project office to coordinate and complete that deployment.
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Jeff Dao
Infrastructure Lead at Umbra Ltd.
We did it through Dell EMC ProDeploy, which is their professional services for this type of work. Our experience with them was very good. There were a couple of hiccups here and there, but it was more related to what was shipped to us, opposed to an actual hiccup with the implementation process.
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Nikolay Muravev
Lead System Administrator at Central Hospital of Civil Aviation
The initial setup and integration of PowerMax were carried out by Dell EMC. We then migrated it via vSphere from our previous solution EMC VNX 5700 to PowerMax.
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reviewer1087290
Senior Information Technology Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
A reseller, Advisex, worked with us on the deployment. We have a close partnership with them and had a good experience.
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Elias Riveros Malky
Regional Alliance Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We used both an integrator and reseller to assist with the deployment.
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Seniostoe09976
Senior Storage Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We used Dell EMC directly for the deployment. The experience has been good, so far.
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Darrel Schueneman
Manager Cloud Operations at a cloud provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We partnered with Data Strategy, who is now Trace3, for our PowerMax implementations. We had a very good experience.
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Managerbe82
Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We went with Dell EMC directly for the deployment.
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Saleh Al Harthy
Head of IT at National Bank Of Oman
We used a local Dell EMC partner and they were pretty good.
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Lei Wang
Manager of Storage Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We worked with Dell EMC directly for the deployment. Our experience with them was pretty good.
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Solutioncc77
Solution Architect at a tech services company
We used resellers for the deployment, as we are resellers. We always use resellers, because that is the best option that customers have.
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Dave Stromberg
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We used a reseller to purchase it, but I believe it was Dell EMC badged people who did the install.
The experience wasn't great. The install, in my mind, meant a usable box. The install that I got was a plugged in box. Then, it's like, "Oh, but we still have to do these five steps." I was under a time crunch, so that was a surprise.
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StorageAdc47
Storage Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did it ourselves.
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Swapnil P.
Solution Architect at Sybyl
Implementation was mainly done by a local resource, because we are not a deployment partner. The resource connected to somebody remotely from a site in Egypt. We managed to deploy it in half a day for each site. The first time that we did the provisioning, it took time, but it was a relatively straightforward process.
We had some requirements, like SRM integration, where we needed some guidance. Dell EMC has suggested that we use CloudIQ, so we want to explore that option. However, we are not using it right now.
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StorageAcdff
Storage Architect at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
We worked directly with Dell EMC for the deployment.
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StorageA7822
Storage Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We worked with Dell to integrate the solution. Our experience with them was good.
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Terry Passineau
Senior Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are still working with our integrator on the deployment since the VMAX is relatively new in the industry that I am working in. We are still working on improving our experience, as they lacked experience in the PowerMax.
The migration process of the VMAX to PowerMax is ongoing. Because we have a VPLEX, it is causing more complexity than if it had been just VMAX to VMAX.
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Jean Gabriel Dick
IT Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
No, we didn't implement through a vendor we go direct through Dell. And the experience was excellent. We have a great relationship with our Dell sales team as well as their support and customer service organization.
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Tom Dennis
IT Applications Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I deployed it myself.
We used post-base migration, which was pretty straightforward, which is not too complicated. I wanted to use the new SRDF-integrated migration method which is integrated with PowerMax, but we didn't get a chance to use it.
View full review »Very good expertise.
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Engineer14ea
Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We used a reseller for the deployment, who we are no longer working with.
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Seniosolua8765
Senior Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
We bought it from a reseller and we used some services from Dell EMC. Our experience with them was pretty good. They showed us the basics and got us started.
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StorageA5b73
Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We are buying it directly from Dell EMC.
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SystemEn3338
System Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Dell EMC helped us with the deployment.
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Dell PowerMax NVMe
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Dell PowerMax NVMe. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.