VMAX [EOL] Room for Improvement

JB
IT Manager - Storage & Backup at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I'm always interested in ways we can scale out and avoid monolithic migrations from one array to another every four to five years. Yes, there are a ton of easy migration methods, but I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem.

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RS
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement. Currently, the one that we have is a single volume limit of 240 gigs. If you wanted bigger than that you have to do meta volumes to combine them.

My understanding is the VMAX3 and the PowerMax, did away with that, making it a lot easier to provision storage than in the past.

Scalability with the 2013 version was an area that needed improvement, but they have fixed it with later products.

All of the issues that I am currently facing with this version, for example, being able to create larger volumes and making it easier to manage, have all been implemented in the new versions of this solution.

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Ali Yazıcı - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank

Stability and availability should be improved.


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DK
Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore. 

They have improved a lot in their last releases. The management is now quite easy. Before it was tedious because people were concerned about the administration tasks and now they made it simple.

In the next release, I would like to see NAS features.

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it_user240936 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Manageability is a bit of a challenge, as the user interface to access the array is not very user-friendly. Many important service consoles, such as the SymmWin is hidden from customer access. Hence, it blocks critical actions, such as failed disk change, etc.

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RL
Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Improvements for PowerMax might be tricky since what we already know that what we will receive is enough for us. All of our requirements are supported by the current version of PowerMax that we purchased.

As far as improvements for VMAX3, it would have been great to have it across all systems.

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it_user159387 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

1) It is still expensive.

2) Front-end port throughput should be higher than what it is currently.

3) Restriction on storage and system bay ordering/placement should be gone.

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it_user814776 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Infrastructure Architect

Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction.

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JM
Head of Microinformatics at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would like this solution to integrate the solution that Dell EMC vPlex offers. In addition, I think they should have a better means to test the equipment.

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it_user164970 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Storage and Virtualization with 501-1,000 employees

Adding a snapshot function will make this product even better, currently that feature is lacking.

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it_user2529 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Data Center at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cost of the hardware tends to be high, however, you do get what you pay for. View full review »
it_user820140 - PeerSpot reviewer
‎Chief Catalyst at ssnc
  • Ease of use
  • Reporting
  • Performance management
  • Performance
  • Dependability
  • Resilience replication
  • Power
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