We performed a comparison between Dell Storage Resource Manager, Dell VPLEX, and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."The partitions function well for backup storage."
"It is easy to control the storage."
"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."
"It's all about ease of use and reliability."
"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."
"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."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"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."
"Technical support is inadequate."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"The solution could always be more easily scalable."
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