Dell PowerMax NVMe Primary Use Case
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Haseeb Sheikh
Manager Private Cloud Solutions at ufone
Our primary use case for PowerMax is hosting our VMware environment with VMware SRM hosted on and connected to both. The PowerMax does the SRDF replication for VMware SRM, and some of the workload on it is for the physical environment that consists of Unix, AIX, and Sun Solaris. In addition to that, we have physical Windows and Linux servers as well. We have 1,200-plus virtual machines hosted on PowerMax.
We have two PowerMax 8000s, each deployed at a different site. The capacity of the PowerMax at the primary site is 500 terabytes, and approximately 200 terabytes at the DR site.
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Kamel Malti
Analyste De Systèmes Informatiques at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
We're trying to converge a lot of storage equipment, around ten units, from two different locations into redundant PowerMax sites. We need to converge all the VNX and HVAs from Hitachi to something like enterprise storage like PowerMax.
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Dell PowerMax NVMe
April 2024
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VijayShankar
Senior Administrator/IT Systems & Cloud Operations at Etisalat
Dell PowerMax NVMe is an enterprise array that gives you maximum throughput. It's not a mid-range or small array. Dell PowerMax NVMe can handle a minimum of one petabyte.
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Vince Vitro
Sr Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have two PowerMax arrays. One is at our primary data center. The other is in the secondary data center, and they replicate back and forth to each other. We use them to store a lot of databases and files, but we don't have as much on them as we used to because our CIO is outsourcing a lot. We have taken a lot out of the data center recently, so there isn't as much on them as we intended when we bought them but I think it's mostly databases, file shares, and some one-off applications. It's all virtualized on VMware as well.
Our clients are using PowerMax for scaling, for example, for cases with banking details and public records. They're already using it on the enterprise level. Moreover, the clients need to use strong and more expensive batteries to meet all the different tool groups and applications that are running on it. This solution provides flexibility to handle huge amounts of data, even with different sites and branches.
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Reviewer593747
Storage Team Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
We are the centralized IT department for a state government and we service every agency in the state. That includes anything from the state police down to DNR, parks, unemployment, and DHHS. There is a wide variety of use cases, but the big hitters on it are Oracle and SQL databases.
It's on-prem. It's in two different data centers that are 60 miles apart and we're doing a synchronous replication between the data centers.
View full review »Our customers are using it for telecom.
View full review »It's mainly when it's driven to performance and high availability, that's the main two use cases that we actually address with the systems.
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reviewer1852083
Senior Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's our primary storage and it replaced some older and slower storage.
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Paul Croteau
Senior Solution Architect at Rackspace
We are a very large customer of Dell EMC. We have several different deployments or installations. The biggest use case is probably a multi-tenant or shared environment where we provide many petabytes of storage for multiple customers who utilize that same infrastructure. We are a managed services provider in the cloud sector so we have to deliver high performance storage for thousands of customers who have to be up all the time.
There are a lot of different use cases, in general: Having large quantities of storage available that is always available, because of this uptime is important as is performance. As a service provider, we deliver storage on demand for our customers. This is important because we can adjust storage needs on a per customer basis. Whether it be increases or decreases in storage, this platform allows us to do that very easily.
We are using the latest release.
View full review »Dell PowerMax NVMe is an enterprise storage designed for bigger customers that require resilient and powerful storage solutions. It ensures seamless management of large database workloads that need high performance and low latency in data handling and responsiveness.
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Martin Gonzalez
Solution Administrator at Telcel
I am the solution administrator for Telcel. I use it to analyze the host and for data availability. It is a useful tool for me. I use it a lot every day. It is used for mission-critical operations.
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Feisal Anooar
VP Global Markets, Global Head of Storage at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We are primarily using the solution to drive components of an e-trading (electronic trading) platform.
View full review »We use the PowerMax 2000 and 8000 models as storage appliances for high-end mission-critical applications.
View full review »We are using the PowerMax for our core banking solution, ERP, and our payment systems, as well as middleware, ATM, and the most critical banking systems.
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Jeff Dao
Infrastructure Lead at Umbra Ltd.
We currently use PowerMax NVMe for our file server and all our VMs. It is a SAN, so all of our storage or data sits on it. It is just a great storage appliance.
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Pisey NAP
Senior System Administrator at PRASAC Microfinance Institution Limited
We use it for our core banking data.
View full review »Our customers use the product for virtualization. They also use it for SAP deployments and bigger databases like PostgreSQL.
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Nikolay Muravev
Lead System Administrator at Central Hospital of Civil Aviation
We are a medical organization. We use PowerMax with medical ERP. We have some government projects that utilize PowerMax because we have 99.99% reliability and uptime requirements.
We are not using cloud-connected storage. However, we are using PowerMax to virtualize our local/on-premise infrastructure.
We do not have a big installation. In Russia, our company was among the first companies who purchased PowerMax appliances. Our environment is around 250 terabytes.
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StorageEb283
Enterprise Infrastructure Services, Storage Service Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case is the database and high transactional use for block storage.
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Paul Croteau
Senior Solution Architect at Rackspace
Our primary use case for Power Max is customer data. We host hundreds, if not thousands of applications, large and small, for hundreds of thousands of customers. It's the storage platform for our customers' online presence.
What's not on PowerMax? Because we have hundreds of thousands of customers running thousands and thousands of applications. From the small mom and pop shops running their mission-critical eCommerce site to the major Fortune 500 companies running every major database: Oracle, SQL, MySQL, Postgres, etc. We're running the big database engines, and the database is the holy grail for all online businesses. Therefore, major database applications are very important. Big eCommerce applications for very large brands are running on top of it, as well. We are running everything on it.
The role that data plays in Rackspace is two-fold because we are both a customer and a partner. As a service provider, we are monitoring millions of data points every hour for our customers. We are monitoring the health of their systems: the traditional IT monitoring, CPU, networking, storage, uptime, security, etc. We are gathering all that data and need systems where we can dump that data, then analyze it without fail, knowing that it will be there. PowerMax gives us the latency and capacity that we need at any scale for all the data that we can throw at it.
On the customer side, they are using us and our underlying PowerMax infrastructure for their mission-critical applications to do things with big data, dedupe, and other applications. Our customers are using us for the foundation of their big analytics applications.
View full review »My company uses Dell PowerMax NVMe for our customers, but it's possibly not for a big account or a customer with a big data center. With Dell PowerMax NVMe, my company focuses on the storage part and also the database aspect.
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Oluwatosin Obatoyinbo
Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We currently use it to power our Oracle databases, especially for our core banking solution. We also use it for storage. We provisioned the storage from PowerMax for various VMs that we created for the applications in that environment.
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reviewer1087290
Senior Information Technology Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case is block storage.
We are planning on deploying mission-critical applications on this solution for redundancy and performance.
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reviewer1852668
Enterprise Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution to consolidate high-performing workloads. The solution houses all of our VM workloads, as well as our EMR, which supports over 20,000 users. We also have PowerMax deployed on a different site for disaster recovery.
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Elias Riveros Malky
Regional Alliance Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for tying in high-end analytics services. PowerMax has some tiers which a make difference between the use of the data for our customers. All Dell technologies Solutions have tiers with faster hard disks. This one has special tiers to grant another level of data. That's why we use PowerMax and NVMe technology.
It is best for block storage.
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Ahmed Kamel
Sr. Storage Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I work in data storage as a senior administrator.
I use multiple Dell EMC protection and storage tools like VMAX and PowerMax network for data domains. This product is an onsite data center and we have two PowerMax boxes. One of them is for our main site and the other is for our disaster recovery (DR) site.
We use PowerMax SRDF as our main application.
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Vipindas K.P
Product Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We have PowerMax 2000. It is for our clients. We have two PowerMax in our environment. One is in production, and another one is on the DR site. We have to replicate the data from production to that one.
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John Lyons
Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We used it for Oracle Databases. The customer for which we did the PoC of PowerMax is planning on deploying mission-critical applications on this solution: Oracle workloads such as their quoting system and their data warehouse.
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Seniostoe09976
Senior Storage Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We are using it for VMware, virtual infrastructures, and our physical host. All of our virtual infrastructure is pretty much mission-critical, and we have all of our virtual infrastructure migrating into the PowerMax family.
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reviewer2084058
Director - Products & Solutions at a religious institution with 11-50 employees
We are using this solution as our main storage. We use it with VMware, as well as our databases. We are customers of Dell and I'm a team lead for network and infrastructure.
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Darrel Schueneman
Manager Cloud Operations at a cloud provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The primary use case is for SQL database, as it's our primary data tier. We are deploying the main SQL databases for our cloud application on the solution.
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reviewer1510488
Senior BDM at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We primarily use the solution for putting together solutions for our customers.
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Managerbe82
Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It is for our corporate ERP systems and databases.
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SeniorEnc9d7
Senior Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We work in robotics and we need better response times. Our primary reasons for buying this solution are our SQL and Oracle databases, to improve the performance in running queries and their response times.
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Saleh Al Harthy
Head of IT at National Bank Of Oman
We have used it for a long time and we have recently been upgrading it. Last month we acquired a PowerMax 2000 and we have just finished the migration. We hope it will help us with performance and through the additional features which are part of the software.
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Lei Wang
Manager of Storage Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We use it for our testing and development environments.
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reviewer1087326
Director of Information Technology at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We run a Medicaid data warehouse on a massive enterprise Oracle shop. Therefore, we have a lot of Oracle on PowerMax. We run a big analytics for the New York State Department of Health using Oracle Big Data.
Because of the Big Data analytics, we require immense IOPS, which the PowerMax handles quite well. Our sole purpose in life is to provide endpoint analytics.
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Architec23dd
Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
This would be for leveraging the purchase of PowerMax storage system through a service provider, who would deliver the capacity of PowerMax on a service catalog basis. The storage capacity would be offered as a block service and the utilization of the PowerMax would be delivered on a revised written basis.
This will certainly be leveraged to deploy non-critical and mission-critical applications in our environment, in which we have plenty of both at this point in time.
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Solutioncc77
Solution Architect at a tech services company
The primary use case is for Tier 0 applications. It is meant for applications which are absolutely mission-critical, when you can't compromise your system performance. We have customers who use it across the board for just mission-critical applications, high availability, and guaranteed performance.
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Dave Stromberg
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mainframe and open system storage that replicates consistently.
We are a financial services organization, so we are data and investments. It is what our company uses to run. However, I don't know that PowerMax, or VMAX, is anything special compared to other products that we have our data on.
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StorageAdc47
Storage Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
From a storage point of view, our primary uses are as our primary storage which provides all of the capacity for our databases, applications, and most of our mission-critical work at the moment.
We're planning on moving our most critical databases onto the PowerMax to take advantage of all the new features and functions, as well as the ability for it to grow into the future to continue to provide that top level of performance.
Data plays a very important role in our business. It allows us to make good decisions and react to our customers' needs. The PowerMax is going to be where we put the most critical data so we can get the fastest results from that investment.
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rrukhaiyar573
Technical Consultant at a recreational facilities/services company with 11-50 employees
We use the solution for managing workloads like SQL, online streaming, and middleware.
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Swapnil P.
Solution Architect at Sybyl
We are using it for core banking systems and virtualized enrollment. So, everything for this bank is on PowerMax, including its core banking system, which is running on Solaris, and all the relevant applications running on VMware.
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StorageAcdff
Storage Architect at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use it for virtualization and consolidation of our data lakes.
We are using PowerMax for SAP and Exchange to run the company.
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StorageA7822
Storage Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use PowerMax to provide storage for our clients. The service level is important for the different service classes we propose to our clients.
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Steve Lotthammer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Typically, when we are doing PowerMax, it is for applications that we need maximum performance, but also maximum reliability. So, Dell EMC has a lot of other products that can do very high performance, but there are not a lot of other products in the market that can reach the reliability and the availability that PowerMax can.
The use case goes back to when you need that ultimate uptime, where you can't ever have an application go down. We see this a lot in healthcare applications. We also see a lot of miscellaneous other database applications that need to be up all the time for running web services and service providers.
View full review »The primary use case is data storage consolidation for mission-critical applications, like billing, the charging system, mobile payment, and intelligent network. Virtualization and cloud infrastructure are where the customer is using many solutions for virtualization, like Hyper-V, Oracle Virtual Machine, OpenStack, VMware, Solaris, Linux, Kubernetes, and Docker. Disaster recovery was also the main focus of the customer to guarantee RPO and RTO. The last use case was a NAS solution through the eNAS provided by PowerMax. The previous eNAS hosted by VMAX 10K has its limits in term of size limit for a file system.
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Terry Passineau
Senior Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for all entitled storage on back-end hospital systems, VMware, and Citrix.
We will be putting the hospital HR system on it, because we need it to be fast, efficient, and always up. PowerMax will provide this solution for us.
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Jean Gabriel Dick
IT Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use case is data storage, compression, encryption, all in one device. So we need all those things.
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Tom Dennis
IT Applications Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Our primary use case is blocked storage.
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Engineer14ea
Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The primary use case is for Tier 0 applications.
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StorageAa6c5
Storage Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our mission-critical environment is on the PowerMax.
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MemberOfcf5c
Member of Technical Staff at Cisco Systems, Inc.
We are a partner installer.
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StorageA5b73
Storage Admin at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We acquired PowerMax for virtualization with PowerVC, which is the IBM product for virtualization. We're still in the PoC phase. While we initially acquired it for the PowerVC solution, we hope to deploy everything on it once we finish the PoC.
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Dell PowerMax NVMe
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Dell PowerMax NVMe. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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