Dell PowerFlex Reviews

Name: Dell PowerFlex
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

3.8 out of 5

6 reviews

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VxRack System consists of hyper-converged rack-scale engineered systems, with integrated networking, to achieve the scalability and management requirements of traditional and cloud native workloads. The VxRack series is purposely designed to enable customers to quickly deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and/or Private Cloud architectures. VxRack Systems tightly integrate hardware with software and management layers.

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Saikat Chakraborty

General Manager at ACT FIBERNET

Dec 6, 2021

What is most valuable We haven't yet faced any challenge per se. It's pretty much just like handling a riskier controlled environment anyway, which we had experience with already. There's nothing special about it in terms of handling. That's why it's okay as a solution. The stability has been…

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Scott Yoshimura

Lead Technical Product Manager at United Services Automobile Association

May 4, 2022

What is our primary use case We use this solution to manage software-defined infrastructure and for rapid provisioning of computer storage. How has it helped my organization? The API catalog helps us use Ansible automation. We still have to build custom providers for PowerFlex Manager to use…

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Saikat Chakraborty

General Manager at ACT FIBERNET

Jul 17, 2022

What is our primary use case We are customers of Dell and I'm the general manager of our company. What is most valuable? The solution saves a lot of space in the data center and that is a key advantage for us. The other advantage is the kind of contingency that it provides within itself,…

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Pricing

"The pricing for this solution is good."
"The price of the solution is fair, it is priced in the average range amongst competitors."
"The cost of this solution is fair."

Valuable Features

"The setup was very straightforward."
"It has reduced downtime. Before, on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. But currently I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion."
"The most valuable feature is the overall integration and just seeing the three different layers which make up the machine software. Altogether, it's something that I would say is much better than any other solution that I have experienced before."

Room For Improvement

"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"We're also running Hyper-V virtual machines. But we recently discovered that migration of the Hyper-V virtual machines is a bit challenging. Maybe if Dell EMC can come out with a tool that will make it very easy for us to migrate the Microsoft Hyper-V machine, that may be an improvement."
"Exporting data from the dashboard is not very user-friendly. It's just designed in a way that it's going to cover let's say 90%, 80%, of the end-users needs. If you need more sophisticated reporting it's not easy to have."

Pricing

"The pricing for this solution is good."
"The price of the solution is fair, it is priced in the average range amongst competitors."
"The cost of this solution is fair."

Valuable Features

"The setup was very straightforward."
"It has reduced downtime. Before, on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. But currently I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion."
"The most valuable feature is the overall integration and just seeing the three different layers which make up the machine software. Altogether, it's something that I would say is much better than any other solution that I have experienced before."

Room For Improvement

"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"We're also running Hyper-V virtual machines. But we recently discovered that migration of the Hyper-V virtual machines is a bit challenging. Maybe if Dell EMC can come out with a tool that will make it very easy for us to migrate the Microsoft Hyper-V machine, that may be an improvement."
"Exporting data from the dashboard is not very user-friendly. It's just designed in a way that it's going to cover let's say 90%, 80%, of the end-users needs. If you need more sophisticated reporting it's not easy to have."

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Learn more about Dell PowerFlex

The result is a fully tested, pre-configured, hyper-converged system with simplified operations at data center and Service Provider scale. VxRack Systems support the deployment of a variety of application workloads, allowing IT to rapidly deliver new services while improving overall agility and efficiency.

Dell PowerFlex was previously known as VxFlex, VxRack FLEX, PowerFlex.

Dell PowerFlex is the #10 ranked solution in HCI Software. PeerSpot users give Dell PowerFlex an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. Dell PowerFlex is most commonly compared to VxRail: Dell PowerFlex vs VxRail. Dell PowerFlex is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 66% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 15% of all views.

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