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Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) vs Dell VPLEX comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Dell Storage Resource Manag...
Ranking in Storage Management
1st
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Dell VPLEX
Ranking in Storage Management
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) is 5.8%, down from 7.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell VPLEX is 4.9%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM)5.8%
Dell VPLEX4.9%
Other89.3%
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Kazi Amranul Houqe - PeerSpot reviewer
First Assistant Vice President (FAVP) & Unit Head of Server & Storage Management Unit at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Has streamlined provisioning and enabled centralized monitoring across hybrid environments
Considering nowadays, all the concentration is focusing on data protection, data security, and data resilience with Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM). I suggest to the Dell team to concentrate on data security and cybersecurity, as it is the most significant concern. I work in a bank, and for financial organizations, much focus is spotlighted on how to protect data, secure data, and prevent any kind of fraud. Many financial organizations' data is corrupted and hacked by third parties, so it's crucial to find ways to protect data security and save data by creating an air-gap solution. Having ideas on an air-gap solution to prevent data leakage without a network layer would be beneficial. Maintaining a security layer is important, so this is my expectation for Dell.
Shailendra Choudhary - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Has supported enterprise projects consistently but pricing remains a challenge for broader adoption
We are system integrators and resell the HCI solution. We have worked with Dell VPLEX for approximately two to three years. We have been in several RFCs, and Dell VPLEX is implemented in the enterprise segment only. The solution is expensive and requires more budget, so people in the SMB segment do not prefer it. We typically recommend Dell VPLEX for customers who already work with other Dell products.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's all about ease of use and reliability."
"The most valuable features of either of the SRM tools were the reporting and real-time ability to show management that additional storage was required or who was using what storage and bandwidth."
"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."
"Ease of administration fits in well with all the EMC SAN storage."
"The alerting feature is valuable because it completes the gap of storage monitoring."
"The partitions function well for backup storage."
"It is easy to control the storage."
"Managing multiple storage arrays under one console was a valuable feature of this product."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"VPLEX offers a large compatibility matrix and valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"The business continuity is sorted, as the data is in two data centers, i.e., readable and writable, and if one side goes down, there is no downtime and the other side continues non-disruptively."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"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."
 

Cons

"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"Technical support is inadequate."
"The installation was complex because we had to setup multiple servers."
"To be frank, I believe there are many other applications that allow us to manage the array, along with in-depth analysis. Even EMC has developed better products than ECC."
"We were unhappy as no one from EMC heard our plea for assistance and it became expensive in terms of the license and the amount of resources it took."
"I would like to see third-party storage management."
"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."
"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."
"Cost. This is really expensive."
"Much room for improvement exists."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"Based on our requirements, we bought this product for doing online data migrations without data disruption, but we realized that there is a limit to backend storage that can be encapsulate to it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is mid-priced."
"There are no licensing costs for this product."
"We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."
"VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Healthcare Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
13%
Healthcare Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Dell Storage Resource Manager?
Considering nowadays, all the concentration is focusing on data protection, data security, and data resilience with Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM). I suggest to the Dell team to concentrate on...
What is your primary use case for Dell Storage Resource Manager?
The use case for Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) is good for us, as there is good provisioning and we use it for the resource manager for thin provisioning and managing the storage. I'm using a...
What advice do you have for others considering Dell Storage Resource Manager?
I was using Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) fully on-prem, but currently, it is almost a hybrid solution. The banking applications are diverting from on-prem to the cloud and Kubernetes microse...
What needs improvement with Dell VPLEX?
Some of the products are very easy to implement, while others are more difficult, and our team seeks support help when required. Regarding the integration part, the delivery team handles all integr...
What is your primary use case for Dell VPLEX?
We are implementing Cohesity, Hitachi, Dell, and Nutanix, VMware, vSAN; multiple products. We have recently started working with Cohesity because there was not much presence in India for Cohesity, ...
What advice do you have for others considering Dell VPLEX?
Hitachi Systems Microclinic has been renamed to Hitachi Systems India Private Limited. The email address has been changed to shailendra.chaudhry.hd at hitachi-systems.com from shailendra_singh.chau...
 

Also Known As

Dell EMC SRM, Dell EMC ViPR SRM, ViPR SRM, EMC ControlCenter, ECC, EMC ProSphere
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Sample Customers

HNTB Corporation
Kindred Healthcare, Regis Aged Care, WeBank SpA, Panduit, Munson Healthcare
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