"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"This product has good performance."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"The most valuable feature is the tight VMware integration, due to the migration from bare metal to virtualized environments and then on to the cloud."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"Integration with VMware"
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"One of the best features of the VNX is the ability to combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool. By combining small but fast flash drives, SAS drives, and high-capacity but slower NL-SAS drives, the VNX can intelligently move data to the different tiers of storage based on usage."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Enterprise SAN. INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, VMware vSAN and Dell XtremIO, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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