Dell PowerFlex Reviews

Name: Dell PowerFlex
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4 (23 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

23 reviews
95% willing to recommend

1,729 followers

What is Dell PowerFlex?

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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Dell PowerFlex is the #7 ranked solution in HCI Software. PeerSpot users give Dell PowerFlex an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Dell PowerFlex is most commonly compared to VMware vSAN: Dell PowerFlex vs VMware vSAN. Dell PowerFlex is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 16% of all views.

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Scott Yoshimura

Lead Technical Product Manager at United Services Automobile Association

We use this solution to manage software-defined infrastructure and for rapid provisioning of computer storage The API catalog helps us use Ansible automation. We still have to build custom providers for PowerFlex Manager to use Ansible, but what we developed has enabled us to provision computer…

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Saikat Chakraborty

General Manager at ACT FIBERNET

We are customers of Dell and I'm the general manager of our company. 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, the flexibility of utilizing the resources as and when…

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Syed Fasih

BU Head Cloud, Computing, Storage & DP at Abdulla Fouad Group

Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also…

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Dell PowerFlex mindshare

As of July 2024, the mindshare of Dell PowerFlex in the HCI category stands at 14.1%, up from 7.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Jul 12, 2024

Valuable Features

"The tool's most valuable features are its price and flexibility. It has high performance."
"Dell PowerFlex improves our latency which allowed us to reduce a lot of our Microsoft Enterprise SQL licenses."
"Dell PowerFlex is a complete hyperconverge that makes automation easy to manage and extremely stable."

Room for Improvement

"The tool needs to improve its storage. It should also make migration to the cloud easier."
"The initial deployment was complicated and required a lot of data nodes, IPs, internal vLANs, data vLANs, and many other things."
"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."

Pricing

"I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
"We have a good contact in Dell and he prepared all the information and provided everything to us."
"The product is expensive."

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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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.

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Dell PowerFlex customers

Canopy, 8x8Inc., Atos, Canadian Pacific, City of Denton, CenturyLink, BNP Paribas, Asyaport, EDF, CSC, Fox Sports, Insight, Hunter, KPIT, Paetec, Rosetta Stone, Sonda, Xerox