"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"You can add compute and capacity independently. We have sized the solution based on our current needs, but in the future we can choose to increase capacity if we grow our activity in the market. And if we have more business in our monetary system, we can increase compute. The ability to choose what we increase is a good feature."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes."
"Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use."
"The way you're able to manage all your PowerStores as one solution is very good for us. PowerStore enables you to federate or cluster multiple appliances with automated load balancing. In terms of management, it's helpful that we can do it from a single interface where we're able to manage multiple PowerStores. When you have multiple PowerStores it works intelligently by running the workloads based on the needs of the infrastructure."
"The simplicity and ease of use have been very valuable features. I have a very small team, and only half of the team is well versed in the HP product. Whereas if I bring PowerStore in, everyone can learn it because it will be new on the floor."
"The flexibility of this solution has been valuable for our business."
"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"I've found the stability to be very good."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster."
"There is no Synchronize replication feature on the storage."
"The only area I can highlight for improvement is that the 4:1 data reduction target has not been reached. This may be due to an issue with Dell EMC's initial analysis of data compression. As a result, we have had to add new physical disks to reach our goal of total available disk space."
"The price is on the higher side."
"The NAS part is very poor. It's very basic. Even Dell EMC has said that to us. We are waiting for version 3 of PowerStore for that. This must be improved and it is in the roadmap."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"There's always room for improvement in the operating code."
"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."
"What I understand is that this is a 13 year old architecture, so it has lived its life and they're phasing it out. Honestly, we were initially struggling with the integration with VMware (but it was fixed with the VMware 6.5) and, then, it was around a 10GB network. At that time, it had the longevity to go to 100GB as well. It got us thinking about, when we go into the containerized architecture, what do we need to do to fix the infrastructure?"
"Dell could improve the upgrading process."
"The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series."
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"The price could be improved."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 15 reviews while Dell SC Series is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 13 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.8, while Dell SC Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "Saves us power and floor space, and we can quickly assign new data stores for our developers' VMs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "The performance was staggering and more than what we paid for". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Pure Storage FlashArray, IBM FlashSystem and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Dell SC Series is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series, Dell XtremIO and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Dell SC Series report.
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