We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System 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."The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"The reliability is very good."
"The optimization of the cache memory of each engine and the use of persistent memory."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"PowerMax, with version 9.02, which we installed recently, has some very good features, such as CloudIQ."
"It is efficient and very simple for our administrators to use."
"It has dramatically cut down the footprint in our data center and reduced the amount of raw disk capacity that we needed to purchase."
"First, it's an enterprise storage solution. This is very important for us. Another important feature is replication."
"PowerMax NVMe has made it a lot easier to understand how much we are able to provision. It has made it a lot faster to provision new things. 90% of my time for provisioning has been reduced. Also, it has made it very easy to understand and see everything behind it versus the older heritage, where Dell EMC was very convoluted and hard to get working. Things that used to take an hour, probably now take five to 10 minutes."
"The response time, compared to XtremIO, is far better."
"It's actually shaking hands with the workflow solutions much better than any other storage."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"Dell needs to offer more midrange storage options with enterprise-class features similar to the PowerMAX."
"I would like them to continue improving the management tools and continue moving towards a RESTful API versus CLI."
"Support of the product can be slow and an administrative challenge: planning, scheduling, and overseeing data center access for a Dell EMC rep. One improvement could be to enable a self-maintenance option. The requirements that we go through to get Dell EMC onsite to replace failed drives, power supplies, and other small redundant parts can be unnecessarily complex. If simplified, they could send us the parts, then we could replace them much faster, more easily, and truly within the SLA parameters."
"Some of the management features could be simplified and that's probably the main thing they need to address."
"The tool needs to improve its performance. Today's applications are demanding a response rate of one millisecond or below. The product should also look into AI integration."
"Firmware updates are a bit painful because you have to involve their support, as opposed to having the ability to do it yourself."
"When it comes to Oracle and database workloads, data reduction could be a little bit better. Some of the competition, like Pure, have post-processes which do additional deduplication and compression on the backside; everything is in-line and then they do a secondary process. It would be a good option if you could start getting 5:1 or 6:1 data reduction on database workloads."
"I'd like to see the dedup and compression improve. Two to one is not very good. We should be getting something like three, four, or five to one."
"It has to be flexible according to the customer's requirements. It has to be aligned with the customer business and the business environment."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is ranked 35th in All-Flash Storage. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System writes "Has a fantastic feature-set and works well with workflow solutions". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is most compared with .
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