2020-07-08T09:00:56Z

What needs improvement with Dell VPLEX?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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ZM
Real User
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2023-07-18T07:19:00Z
Jul 18, 2023

Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure. Any EMX product, be it PowerMax, VMAX, or DMAX, works based on the CLI. A person has to be very good at running the solution through commands. Even if you memorize the commands, some don't work with a few software versions EMC releases yearly, which is difficult to manage. From the data center perspective, installing drives is not easy. Those involve a lot of costs because you need to purchase many licenses. Additionally, we still face administrative issues if a password expires, and we need to manage anything.

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KV
Consultant
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2023-05-19T11:10:04Z
May 19, 2023

There are sometimes delays in getting performance reports. It would be great if VPLEX could be integrated with the cloud.

Sayed Zuber - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
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2023-02-14T08:48:00Z
Feb 14, 2023

Dell VPLEX currently requires Flash Player to access the GUI. It would be better to have a web-based HTML management interface. The encryption could also be improved. When the host writes data, it goes from VPLEX back to the physical storage. The physical storage device will do encryption or use an algorithm called Data Address Encryption. If there are vulnerabilities between the host and the storage device, you can lose your data. I suggest encrypting the data before it is sent from the host to the storage. I would also recommend using the NVM protocol in VPLEX. It still has Flash Player and a local SATA disk built into the Flash Player. You need to Flash the disk to SAS and then SATA. The NVM protocol is better.

SD
Real User
2021-03-24T19:23:39Z
Mar 24, 2021

With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom and old SAN fabrics. VPLEX is currently on Fiber Channel. The future is ethernet, not Fiber Channel.

AA
Real User
2020-07-08T09:00:56Z
Jul 8, 2020

The administration is difficult, so we want to add hyper-converged infrastructure. I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications. This is something that is available in other products and it would make new sites very easy and fast to set up.

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