We performed a comparison between Dell Storage Resource Manager and Dell VPLEX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The partitions function well for backup storage."
"It's all about ease of use and reliability."
"It is easy to control the storage."
"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."
"The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."
"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"Technical support is inadequate."
"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
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Dell Storage Resource Manager is ranked 4th in Storage Management with 8 reviews while Dell VPLEX is ranked 1st in Storage Management with 18 reviews. Dell Storage Resource Manager is rated 7.2, while Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell Storage Resource Manager writes "Great features that allow for supervision of storage, management of users and driver-related updates". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell VPLEX writes "It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners". Dell Storage Resource Manager is most compared with IBM SAN Volume Control, NetApp OnCommand and NetApp OnCommand Insight, whereas Dell VPLEX is most compared with IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM SAN Volume Control and NetApp OnCommand. See our Dell Storage Resource Manager vs. Dell VPLEX report.
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