Dell SC Series Primary Use Case
We use it for multiple databases. We use it for Oracle and for SQL. We also use it for file systems — Oracle, SQL, file system storage. Most of our use cases involve Oracle, SQL, VMware, and large file systems.
I am a storage architect. have a state administrator that works with me as well.
Internally, within our company, there are a few dozen employees using this solution. Externally, we literally have millions of people that hit that storage system every day.
As far as our database administrators, they're always looking at the storage performance. Some of them actually have read-only log-ins to the storage array itself. They can log in and look at directly what the storage performance is for their database.
Currently, we are not using this solution extensively because it's becoming a sunset solution. There's no option to increase usage. It's like saying you want to buy a '65 Mustang — no, you can't get one brand new, they don't make those anymore. There's no expansion being done because the product's no longer available.
View full review »The solution is mainly used for primary storage and in more than half of the cases, we use the Live Volume, the Synchronous Replication - this Automatic Failover. Its function is for primary storage on two sites.
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Don Woodward
Solutions Consultant at BlueAlly Technology Solutions
It's primary storage. It started off as just being spinning disk, but recently we've had a lot of traction with customers adding flash and even going to all-flash systems. Some of our customers have had it six, seven, eight years.
It performs quite well. We had a customer who had an Oracle all-flash system, and they needed to run VMs in their disaster recovery facility and, of course, they did not want to purchase the Oracle storage because it's extremely expensive. So, they added flash to their existing Compellent storage, they were using a DR for the other stuff. It has performed quite well for them.
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JAEJUNG KIM
Managing Director at Insunginfo
It is used for storage purposes.
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reviewer926175
Senior Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for our production loads and for whatever is running on all the production VMs, including our database and regular applications. In terms of performance, we have had issues once or twice, but apart from that, it has been amazing.
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SnSysAdd472
Sr. Systems Administrator Manager at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use it for storage. We have gotten really good performance out of it, fast IOPS.
We don't use the hybrid solution, or the built-in data migration capabilities, protocols, or DIP inline upgrades.
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Managinga2b8
Managing Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We're a large financial institution and we use them at our branch sites. They're definitely not enterprise-grade, but where we need to have an all-flash solution for applications, and a smaller footprint, that's where we use them.
The performance has been excellent.
View full review »The SC includes various models, and we've deployed everything from their entry range to their mid-range storage. We mainly use SC for disaster recovery.
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reviewer1762782
Infrastructure Business Lead
Regarding our use cases of Dell EMC SC Series, from a core perspective, we are going to phase out Oracle and move to SAP HANA. Oracle was part of our SAP legacy architecture, so we are migrating it to HANA. From a business perspective, we have a couple of Microsoft SQL-based applications that are using the SQL database and which we have for on-the-go users. Our core business is running on SAP and then, from a legacy structure, we have a bit of Microsoft SQL and the rest is on Microsoft.
The technology was declared end of sale last year, so we switched to the newer PowerStore, but we still have the SC Series working and functioning in test and dev. If I'm not mistaken, we got the updated code as well. Our agreement is extended, but we don't plan to continue with it because we've already shifted the workload onto PowerStore.
This solution is deployed on-prem.
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Ben Jardine
Managing Director at Consult BenJ Ltd
The solution is used for shared storage for the ESX cluster, VMware, or Vcenter cluster. It's a virtual machine and it's hosting space for virtual service. The primary reason we use the solution is to host the core infrastructure, the virtual servers including file servers, domain controllers, application servers, sequel servers, etc. Basically, the servers that run the business.
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David Winegar
Network Admin at Jefferson County Washington
We use it for storage for a virtual environment.
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GuyBelanger
Infrastructure architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is a global storage solution for all our servers.
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reviewer1297803
IT Director - Enterprise Storage and Data Protection at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for various type of data but mainly for virtual environments.
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Darren Norfleet
Storage Team Leader at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We're starting our ScaleIO implementation. We have vSAN but we also have software-defined. Our primary goal is to reduce our infrastructure costs by having another offering out there, outside of the traditional SAN storage environment.
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SeniorSyf235
Senior Systems Engineer at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees
We use it for storage. The performance is great. So far there are no issues at all.
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ITManage50af
IT Manager at a non-tech company with 201-500 employees
We use Dell EMC storage at two data center sites for hosting vSphere server environments. Those server services are something that we offer internally in the company: SharePoint, GIS mapping services, license servers, and domain controllers. Pretty much everything is hosted on those servers or on the storage.
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reviewer1398123
Senior Systems Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are a solution provider and the Dell EMC SC Series is one of the products that we implement for our customers. Our clients often use this product in a virtualized server environment for mid-range database use.
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Yap Ming Cur
IT Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It acts as our VM storage, and the performance is good.
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reviewer1245675
Information Technology Operations Manager at Weber Metals
This is our SAN product for use with a traditional VMware setup, using VMware clusters. We have the 150 terabyte enclosure.
View full review »We are a system integrator and this is one of the solutions that we provide for our clients. We have deployed it for more than seven customers
It is used for several purposes including server consolidation and business applications.
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Todd Grimes
IT Architect at Synoptek
We primarily use it to support our customers. We are a managed service provider.
We have private and public clouds that we use it for.
The performance over the years has been great. We like the platform and the upgrade features that it has. The biggest thing which we like is the support that we receive.
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KristianPalsmar
Director of Technology with 501-1,000 employees
Dell Compellent storage just provides for our storage needs.
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Bennie Blakney
Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for VDI, mainly. In terms of performance, there were some difficulties to begin with, with a lot of different upgrades. It took a lot of time because we've got several of them. With all the upgrades done, it has run pretty smoothly.
Right now, we've just got one particular system on it, where we're just trying to test the waters to figure out if it's good because we use a combination of Dell EMC and Cisco equipment. So far, the Dell EMC seems to be doing pretty well. There are some applications that we've run where it appears that the Dell EMC would be a better solution.
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Infrastr69c7
Senior IT Infrastructure Manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are heavily virtualized and it is used for the storage. It's performing well, we have had no issues to date.
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DataCent3afe
Data Center Supervisor with 501-1,000 employees
It back-ends our vSphere virtualization farms.
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Infrastrb44c
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
What we are using from Dell EMC is their server line and their storage line. We're pretty well embedded with Dell EMC.
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Virtualiad5e
Virtualization Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use it as the OS drives for our VMs. Our is a hybrid solution.
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VirtualT40e2
Virtualization Team Leader at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for running all our business workloads.
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David Hammink
System Administrator at Reuter GmbH
It is performing well.
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Nick Goodman
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We use the SC platform for storage solutions. As a partner, it's usually one of our go-to products for mid-range customers.
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reviewer1515540
Director at a tech company with 11-50 employees
We use this product for daily business and normal IT operations. We also use it for replication of one system to another system. We also use it for the hostings for HANA virtualization. Those kinds of replications and IT applications. We use a hybrid version.
View full review »Our primary use case of this solution is for deduplication software but that is just one of the features we use it for. We also use it for infrastructure protection or other objectives.
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reviewer1641264
System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
We use the product in our company and I deal with it personally.
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John Mccallister
Automation at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for converged infrastructure.
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reviewer1314750
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
We only build the basic foundation and the basic installation for the end-user on Dell EMC SC Series. However, I'm not sure what they install on it. Our main use case for Dell EMC SC Series is for VMware.
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Infrastr1ab2
Infrastructure Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 1-10 employees
We use it in our production and environmental support along with our VDI infrastructure.
It has been working to our expectations.
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SystemsE1d94
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's the storage backbone for our virtual environment. So far the performance has been very good.
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reviewer1273260
EMC Storage & Backup Implementation Specialist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Our primary use case is for the traditional environment like virtualization and the database exchange.
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