We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."Performance-wise it's high speed. It's also more stable and scalable."
"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"The most valuable features are the with back-end dedupe, and the thin nodes. For a 20TB or 60TB, we're using almost a one-to-two ratio."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."
"It is fast and performs well."
"It is easy to use, expand the hard drives, add storage, and set up replication."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"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."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"This solution is resilient."
"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."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"While there's always room for improvement in everything, I can't really think of a specific feature of the solution that requires immediate attention."
"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."
"The administration and support (on the way that they delivered) was a little bit slow."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."
"I would like to see an integrated key manager in the controllers. Currently, it's an external product. It would be nice to have the option of having a built-in key for self-encrypting drive features."
"It's not very efficient anymore. There are better products out there."
"I would like to see higher compression, dedupe, faster I/O, and bigger drives."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"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."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 3rd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 49 reviews while VMAX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Frame-Based Disk Arrays. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while VMAX [EOL] is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMAX [EOL] writes "Offers seamless data compression and encryption with no impact on performance". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas VMAX [EOL] is most compared with .
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