We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Fungible Storage Cluster based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"You can use PowerMax for all workloads and consolidation. We have used it to scale thousands of VMs."
"The best feature is the protection - PowerMax NVMe is volume-based and replicates data, so it's very comfortable for us to use."
"Technical support has been excellent."
"Enterprise Cloud Storage is the most valuable feature, along with the data services which come with it, plus the deduplication and compression."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"The performance is very good on our servers. It's superior. And the QoS capabilities for providing work congestion protection are also important because about 99 percent of our servers are production servers."
"The stability is amazing. Zero downtime reported over the last years."
"The uptime is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to implement and configure, easy to use, and really reliable."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"The REST API needs improvement. We are a very big automation company, and this would be big for us."
"It's a relatively new product, but for the next release I would like to see higher bandwidth on the front-end adapters. This would allow even greater scalability for critical workloads and consolidation for non-critical workloads. The hosts may not require that level of I/O performance today. However, it allows us to scale physical non-cloud environments without large investment."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integration with various service providers for public clouds."
"Since the merging of EMC and Dell into Dell Technologies, there has been a hurdle that they've had to overcome, and they're not over it yet. It takes two to three times longer for things to get fixed than it did when they were separate companies. That is something that has to be fixed."
"I would like them to continue improving the management tools and continue moving towards a RESTful API versus CLI."
"There is also room for improvement in the PowerMax architecture and hardware itself. They should design the PowerMax on the basis of PCIe 4.0. I would like to see the possibility of an NVMe drive that operates on PCIe 4.0 and not PCIe 3.0."
"We have had some trouble with the VMAX-to-PowerMax migration, but the VMAX box will be powered down after the migration. The PowerMax boxes are working fine and we don't have any issues with them."
"The security and reporting could be improved."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Fungible Storage Cluster is ranked 31st in All-Flash Storage. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Fungible Storage Cluster is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fungible Storage Cluster writes "Easy to implement and configure but the security and reporting could be improved". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Fungible Storage Cluster is most compared with .
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