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Vendor: Dell Technologies
4.5 out of 5
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Symmetrix VMAX accelerate your transformation to the software-defined data center with the world's most powerful, trusted, and smart family of storage products.
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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

  • "The most valuable features are the interface and performance."
  • "We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."
  • "This solution is resilient."

Room for Improvement

  • "I would like to see support for high-availability."
  • "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."
  • "The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."

Pricing

  • "Our licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
  • "There are additional costs to the standard licensing fee, and it just depends on the package."
  • "Our licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis."
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Learn more about VMAX [EOL]

VMAX [EOL] was previously known as Symmetrix VMAX.

VMAX [EOL] customers

Wentworth-Douglas Hospital, Kindred Healthcare, Cosentry, Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, Shriners, BZWBK

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Ali Yazıcı - PeerSpot user
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank
Verified user of VMAX [EOL]
Dec 22, 2020
Good interface that is customizable, and the technical support is good

Pros

"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."

Cons

"The cluster support should be improved. "

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use of this product is for our core banking servers over FC.

How has it helped my organization?

It is a high end storage, minimal downtime, reliable, good performance, get speedy support when we need.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Ali Yazıcı - PeerSpot user
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank
Verified user of VMAX [EOL]
Jul 30, 2020
Good performance, interface, and product support

Pros

"The most valuable features are the interface and performance."

Cons

"I would like to see support for high-availability."

What is our primary use case?

We use this product as part of our storage solution.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features are the interface and performance.

Support by EMC for this product is good.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
Verified user of VMAX [EOL]
Jul 28, 2020
Has easy management and good Enterprise capabilities

Pros

"We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."

Cons

"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. "

What is our primary use case?

We use it for a VMware and Exchange environment. 

What is most valuable?

We like VMAX's Enterprise capability. 

We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Verified user of VMAX [EOL]
Jul 26, 2020
Product version discussed: 2013
Resilient storage solution with zero downtime that is easy to implement and has good support

Pros

"This solution is resilient. "

Cons

"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We have two data centers and we have VMAX in each one. We use VPlex to replicate data between the two.

What is most valuable?

This solution is resilient. There is zero downtime. 

It's a workhorse.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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JB
IT Manager - Storage & Backup at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of VMAX [EOL]
Jun 27, 2019
Product version discussed: VMAX3 All Fash
Offers seamless data compression and encryption with no impact on performance

Pros

"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."

Cons

"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."

What is our primary use case?

We use the VMAX3 All-Flash Subsystem to support our major Production and QA systems. This specific system currently supports approximately three hundred terabytes of data that includes several Oracle, SQL & DB2 Databases, SharePoint, SAP, JDE Systems, ESX, Windows, Unix, Linux, etc. We are planning on expanding the VMAX3 footprint and will likely double utilization within the next few months.

How has it helped my organization?

The VMAX3 is one of a few systems we have that's truly non-disruptive. Upgrades are coordinated, require zero application downtime, and can be completed in a very short window. Everything is truly active-active. Uptime and reliability are critical success factors within our organization.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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RL
Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of VMAX [EOL]
Apr 24, 2019
Enables users to upgrade and maximize their enterprise data storage capabilities

Pros

"VMAX3 is our main system for storage. All our systems and all our virtualizations are connected to it. In terms of expanding it, we are replacing it with a new system, the PowerMax 2000. So our current VMAX3 platform will be decommissioned soon. We are switching to PowerMax 2000 because we are looking for improved performance. We see it as the best fit for our requirements in terms of the performance and the overall cost."

What is our primary use case?

We are a local Dell EMC partner. We are upgrading our storage capacity. Soon we will be moving to PowerMax All-Flash for SAN environments to consolidate block, file, and open storage. This is the solution that we think will help us to increase performance, with regards to our storage requirements.

How has it helped my organization?

VMAX3 is our main system for storage. All our systems and all our virtualizations are connected to it. In terms of expanding it, we are replacing it with a new system, the PowerMax 2000 so our current VMAX3 platform will be decommissioned soon.

We are switching to PowerMax 2000 because we are looking for improved performance. We see it as the best fit for our requirements in terms of the performance and the overall cost.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Head of Microinformatics at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of VMAX [EOL]
Jan 9, 2019
The all-flash feature is great

Pros

"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution. "

Cons

"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."

What is most valuable?

I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution. 

What needs improvement?

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.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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‎Chief Catalyst at ssnc
Verified user of VMAX [EOL]
Mar 25, 2018
It works with our replication technology, which is native replication technology

Pros

"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."

Cons

"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."

What is our primary use case?

Used for our storage with applications that need storage on the SAN. We also use it with RecoverPoint for replication to another site that also uses VMAX storage. We also use it with RecoverPoint for for replication instead of SRDF.

How has it helped my organization?

Since using the VMAX that we have had in our organization for many years, after moving from CX4 and prior to that EVA, we have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems. It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology. We use RecoverPoint.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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