Dell PowerMax NVMe Pros review quotes

OO
Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 3, 2021
We find the service level option to provision storage very valuable. The ability to define different service levels for storage groups helps us in prioritizing our workload at the infrastructure level.
Abdul-Salam - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - System Analyst (Datacenter Infrastructure) at Sohar International
Jan 11, 2022
The compression and deduplication are always on. We get more than 4:1 capacity savings using them. The efficiency benefits from compression and deduplication are through a specialized hardware module within the storage itself, and that means there is no overhead to the compression and dedupe.
VV
Sr Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 8, 2021
They're basically tanks. You could take a baseball bat to the thing, and it's still going to keep running and doing what it's supposed to do. We've had a couple of part failures, and you can pretty much replace any part on that thing at any time during the day in the middle of production without worrying about anything happening.
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HS
Manager Private Cloud Solutions at ufone
Dec 15, 2021
The SRDF site-to-site replication for the volumes is the most important feature for us. That enables us to do site recovery and replication for our VMware infrastructure.
JD
Infrastructure Lead at Umbra Ltd.
Nov 21, 2022
PowerMax NVMe has made it a lot easier to understand how much we are able to provision. It has made it a lot faster to provision new things. 90% of my time for provisioning has been reduced. Also, it has made it very easy to understand and see everything behind it versus the older heritage, where Dell EMC was very convoluted and hard to get working. Things that used to take an hour, probably now take five to 10 minutes.
SP
Solution Architect at Sybyl
Oct 25, 2021
You can use PowerMax for all workloads and consolidation. We have used it to scale thousands of VMs.
NM
Lead System Administrator at Central Hospital of Civil Aviation
Dec 28, 2021
We removed the need to observe whether we ran into issues with the performance of disks or number of IOPS. Previously, our Oracle Database would throw us performance errors. Now, with PowerMax, everything runs smoothly.
AK
Sr. Storage Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Dec 10, 2021
The UI is very easy to use. We can add volumes and manage them easily.
VK
Product Manager at kyndryl
Oct 26, 2021
Based on our experience with VMAX, there isn't any hardware failure or something like that in PowerMax. Performance-wise also, everything is fine. We haven't faced any performance issues or any hardware failure. Its performance is great as compared to VMAX. Its I/O per second rate is higher than the old model.
GehadSaid - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Presales Solutions Engineer at Metra Group
May 22, 2023
It is a very stable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten.

Dell PowerMax NVMe Cons review quotes

OO
Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 3, 2021
They can make the GUI better, especially for the ones that come out of the box. We did encounter a bit of difficulty in setting up the storage. We had to deploy Solutions Enabler on a Linux machine to be able to fully interact with the storage. They need to upgrade the web interface for the management of the storage that comes out of the box. The management interface for NFS is also a bit old and not very intuitive.
Abdul-Salam - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - System Analyst (Datacenter Infrastructure) at Sohar International
Jan 11, 2022
Although they call it unified storage where you have SAN and NAS, with a NAS implementation on top of a SAN, the NAS implementation is a little complicated and clumsy. As SAN, as block storage, it is very powerful... If they could provide a very good NAS implementation, it would be better, so that customers don't have to look for other simple solutions for NAS.
VV
Sr Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 8, 2021
I think management is where PowerMax is weakest. We're still managing it like we managed EMC arrays in the early 2000s. There's a slicker, fancier GUI that does more things, but at the end of the day, you still have to dig into the command line and issue a lot of the same commands that we still were using almost 20 years ago.
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HS
Manager Private Cloud Solutions at ufone
Dec 15, 2021
There is also room for improvement in the PowerMax architecture and hardware itself. They should design the PowerMax on the basis of PCIe 4.0. I would like to see the possibility of an NVMe drive that operates on PCIe 4.0 and not PCIe 3.0.
JD
Infrastructure Lead at Umbra Ltd.
Nov 21, 2022
Firmware updates are a bit painful because you have to involve their support, as opposed to having the ability to do it yourself.
SP
Solution Architect at Sybyl
Oct 25, 2021
We brought up this question to the implementation engineer. We were comparing use cases where a customer is using RecoverPoint, then goes to PowerMax. In our previous setup with XtremIO, we were using RecpverPoint and keeping snapshots for 30 days, every few seconds. With PowerMax, I requested this for every 15 minutes, keeping it for a week. The engineer's answer was, "There will be too many snapshots. It might slow down the system." This is specifically for the use cases where there is RecoverPoint. While PowerMax works with RecoverPoint, and you can use it, there should be some way where you can have even more snapshots and not to worry about performance and system cache.
NM
Lead System Administrator at Central Hospital of Civil Aviation
Dec 28, 2021
I would like a more informative CloudIQ for iOS. What you can see via the web UI significantly differs from what you can see via the web application.
AK
Sr. Storage Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Dec 10, 2021
PowerMax Storage needs improvement in the area of monitoring tools. It should have more functions and more complicated analysis options inside the monitoring tools.
VK
Product Manager at kyndryl
Oct 26, 2021
I would like to see more development in the cloud environment. It would be good if it comes in the cloud kind of setup.
GehadSaid - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Presales Solutions Engineer at Metra Group
May 22, 2023
There is room for improvement in terms of integration with various service providers for public clouds.