Dell PowerStore Primary Use Case
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Ilan Ben Shetrit
Sales Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I use it to solve a problem for a customer when he has a big VMware ESX environment with virtualization. You can solve a big problem with money or a lot of hardware since you can take the virtualization from PowerStore. Inside PowerStore, on the operating system level, you can use virtualization with VMware ESX or something like it. So, you don't need any hardware.
My company does backups and security. We use a lot of OEMs. We use Dell because they have the strongest product, especially in Israel.
Hybrid environments are very important for our disaster recovery issues. By default, we have 50% to the public cloud, with either Azure or AWS, and 50% on-prem. If it is on-prem, then it is a PowerStore. In Israel, 90% is deployed on-premises.
PowerStore is used in Israeli universities since they have big environments with a lot of vendors. They take all the versions from the 500 to the 3000. It is also used in IT companies with 1,000 or 2,000 employees that have a lot of traffic with heavy loads. There are a lot of people in Israel who love to work with Dell.
View full review »Typically, the customer uses it and we manage it. We primarily use it to host the sub server.
View full review »We use the very first one we added for a very pinpointed solution for a high-performance Oracle database. We've added four more, and they're going to be used primarily to migrate away from HP systems.
Our environment is 80% to 90% virtualized VMware. We have some pretty heavy workloads, whether it be SQL databases or Oracle databases working on the PowerStores right now. It's about three petabytes in size.
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Diego Scaravaggi
System Administrator at Fortech
We were using Dell PowerStore as a block device for VMware infrastructure and in iSCSI Target for a couple of secret server clusters installed at a hardware level. Apart from that, regarding the workload, which is currently more or less 40% for SQL Servers and 60% for the production of VMware machines. We have a small workload on VMware machines to manage a typical number crunching machine and application server. Now, we have six machines running a couple of MongoDB servers. Honestly, our bottleneck is not the PowerStore. Our actual bottleneck is the networking size because we noticed how we got some barriers in LACP algorithms, indicating we have two mixes on every motherboard> However, we are not able to fulfill the double connection. We also have a part of our experience infrastructure, but instead of 25 gigabit, it functions on 10 gigabit. Sometimes, during evenings or on Fridays, we use Rubrik for protection when we run it. When Rubrik works against Dell PowerStore and MongoDB, along with SQL Server, we noticed that PowerStore's QLC is normal while its CPU and compression levels are good. But, we do face a delay in CAPA and the server. So definitely, we noticed that maybe we need to upgrade everything to 25 gigabit, and still, if it doesn't work, then we may consider FortiGate's networking. Dell Compellent was our storage before, and now we are pushing the Ethernet to the maximum with PowerStore.
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Eldad Ohana
System Administrator at Haaretz
We primarily use the solution for storage.
View full review »We're addressing performance issues in our data center as well as the data duplication features to make sure we can be efficient in how we're storing data.
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Jacques DUVERNOIS
Technical Team Leader for Servers and Storage at Orange
We use the PowerStore for our development environment. The frame is a repository for all our VMware infrastructure data stores and the applications that live on those data stores are mainly real-time voice applications in call centers.
We use it with Cisco switches and it's pure block only.
View full review »We use this solution for storage. I'm an enterprise architect.
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Rob Morc
Responsable arwuitectura at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We use Dell PowerStore in all corporate infrastructures. It is being used in the two data centers that we have here in Madrid. We have it deployed on all our systems.
By implementing Dell PowerStore, we mainly wanted to cover all the needs for our ERP and our entire corporate system.
Dell PowerStore is used in the BFS industry.
View full review »It's a good product, especially for companies dealing with virtualization. It's well-suited for a broad range of use cases and stands out when it comes to tasks like personalization. If you require power and flexibility in that regard, it's a reasonably priced, straightforward product that is easy to manage. It delivers on its promises without unnecessary complexity.
We primarily use the solution for storage and data reduction.
View full review »We use the solution for visualization and protection of the environment.
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Brian Ricci
President at Pinnacle Computer Services, Inc.
We are in the process of replacing our current SANs, FTP servers, and NAS servers, and have already implemented the new SAN solution.
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reviewer1860756
Storage Specialist at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution as a POC. We have Extreme IOs that we're looking to replace, and this was brought in as a potential replacement for them.
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Fred Berg
Coordinator at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
In our company, we use Dell PowerStore for IBM SAN Volume Controller. Dell PowerStore is useful for areas like storage, database, and VMware.
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Sander
IT Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use Dell PowerStore as a storage layer behind the virtualization layer. We have IBM SCC and we have the PowerStore behind that to serve the discs to the SCC and the SCC then presents it to the hosts in the network.
View full review »Our company partners with the solution to offer customers storage as a service. We currently use the solution internally for our data center and to conduct tests or demos.
We have not yet used the solution for customers because product lead time is slow and long.
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reviewer1526187
Chief Information Officer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We do a lot of cloning of databases for either troubleshooting or to stage and prepare implementation. We are a SaaS provider in the real estate industry and we're either using the PowerStore to help expedite things in our development environment, or we're using it to help troubleshoot any problems that we have.
We have north of 13 petabytes of storage in our environment.
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Shuhrat Tursunov
Head of Information Security at Bank Eskhata
I use Dell PowerStore in my company as a storage system.
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Ramon Bannink
Senior System Administrator at Graafschap College
I use Dell PowerStore in my company primarily for virtualization through ESXi. Dell PowerStore serves as a primary system for all the storage needs within our organization.
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reviewer1852581
Sr. Manager, Data Center Practice at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are a reseller, and we use them to demonstrate to our customers the PowerStore interface as well as to power our own lab demos, running vCenter, NSX, and other software utilities.
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Mario Gonzalo
Arquitecto infraestructura
We have mainly used it to migrate all the infrastructure we had from a data center to a PowerStore cabin. The truth is that with the good duplication rate that it has, we have been able to migrate everything to a single cabin.
We had a large number of servers, some in particular with a SAP solution that needed a lot of data. What we ultimately wanted was to unify all these solutions into a single storage.
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reviewer1087536
Solution Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
We are using Dell PowerStore primarily for SAP applications as block storage, for replication across different locations.
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reviewer1528422
Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
PowerStore is joined to four application servers in a cluster. We're running an application that we use to monitor our activity in the financial markets. We collect all the data from the market—books, trades, orders—that we send to the market. In terms of volume, we are collecting about 100 million rows a day for the books, 10 million a day for the orders, and about 500 rows for public trades.
It is a mission-critical application because of compliance and the regulators. We have to maintain this kind of monitoring because it's a direct link to our activity in the regulated market.
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Peter Kidiavai
Storage Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have two appliances — a primary and a secondary — and they are synchronized, so all the volumes are replicated. If the primary appliance goes down, we can get functions on the other side. When it's writing on one side, writing is disabled on the other side. In the event of disaster recovery, we can enable writing, and then we can do anything from there.
View full review »Our clients mainly use it for additional workloads in databases and EDI.
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reviewer2318379
Coordinator Team Infrastructure at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I use Dell PowerStore in my organization mainly for our server environment, so all of our virtual servers run on it. I also use Dell PowerStore in my organization to clone our environment to a test environment and some storage devices. The aforementioned details explain the main reason why our organization prefers Dell PowerStore.
View full review »We are partners with Dell.
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SushilKumar1
Security Officer at Videocon Intelligent Security Private Limited
We are using and providing storage. This is all-flash storage.
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Niwat Srinamngern
Solutions Architect/ Consultant at IVT
Most of our PowerStore units are used for VMware VMs and vSphere. We migrated the VMs from our Unity storage.
We have two sites; the data center site (DC) and the disaster recovery (DR) site. We only use the PowerStore on the DC site. The project was put on hold due to COVID but we plan to continue with it this year.
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AmmarRasheed
Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We utilize Dell PowerStore for VMware and to establish an OpenShift environment for deploying applications on the customer's end.
Dell PowerStore is primarily used for high-performance applications, such as databases, but it is also suitable for virtualization and other applications.
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Jorg Lorbeer
IT Administrator at a construction company with 201-500 employees
We use it for machines from VMware vCenter which we keep separate from the PowerStore. It is only the storage. They are connected with iSCSI and NFS. We have no virtual machines directly on the PowerStore.
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Maurizio Davini
CTO at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The use case for this solution is based on VMware and that is why we chose PowerStore X. During the first period of the pandemic, we decided to use our VMware infrastructure for HPC workloads. We were looking for high-performance storage that could be inserted inside our VMware environment in an easy way. PowerStore, which had just been announced, seemed like the right solution and so we decided to buy. We have this storage environment inside the virtual HPC.
In our environment we are doing medical analysis related to genomic workloads. The data are acquired remotely from experiments and stored on the PowerStore. The PowerStore is exposed to the user through virtual machines, and the data are analyzed in this environment.
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reviewer1648785
Technical Support Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it to host all the VMware workloads in production. It has all the types of workloads that any data center would have, from AD to file servers as well as SQL, Exchange, and BI. It holds all our high-tier VMs.
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Vinod Raj
Customer support engineer at Al Khalili Technology LLC
Our primary use case for Dell PowerStore is for data protection and data transfer.
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Duco Rob
Founder and CEO at Desktoptowork
We were in need of a new enterprise storage solution for our virtual machines. We use it for primary systems and processes, so for us it's very important.
View full review »We are using Dell PowerStore for block storage. We store all the virtualized environments, such as ERP, virtual machines, Oracle, and SAP-based Virtual Machines. We use storage for all our blocks.
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reviewer1852080
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We use this solution for VM and some AI storage. It's mostly an internal use server. We use it for the lab, and customers can access it. We use iSCSI on it.
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reviewer1852449
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
We use this solution for customers who are looking for NFS and SMB file shares with faster access, migrating from the existing Unity and VNX onto PowerStore. We use this solution for consolidation.
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Ben Kuo
Sales Manager at Yottatech
They use Dell PowerStore to build virtualization.
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reviewer2076852
System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I'm a systems engineer and we have a partnership with Dell.
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Pawel Augustyn
System Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our primary use case for this solution is virtual machines and file server databases.
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reviewer1681656
Co-Founder at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are a cloud service provider and we use Dell EMC PowerStore for the storage.
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