My role in using or managing Dell PowerStore is that of a system engineer. The size of my company is approximately over thirty-three thousand employees.
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Our main use cases for Dell PowerStore are completely running SQL on it. We run SQL databases, which makes us fairly simplified and very specific in that aspect of what we do with them. We know it can do a whole lot more, but in our case, we're simplified on that and we run and optimize them for running SQL databases.
View full review »My main use case for Dell PowerStore is the efficiency for block and unified storage. I am currently using both feature sets that Dell PowerStore offers; the file side, which is unified, serves out all of my file systems for approximately 460 users, and the block side is primarily for my VMware infrastructure environment, which comprises 98% VMware.
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Basically, we use Dell PowerStore for storage and backup purposes. We perform a lot of backup activity on it, mainly weekly backup, monthly backup, and we store yearly backup. It is very good, accessible, flexible, and scalable. We get good connectivity and good speed. Everything is fine with Dell EMC.
The speed at which we use Dell PowerStore is awesome. The duration of the backup time is very less. We have a couple of Dell PowerStore appliances. If I calculate it, I have more than five of them. The model is PowerStore 500T.
I work as an in-house engineer with Dell PowerStore. We directly ordered from the Dell site. We have shared experience of ordering from Dell, working in teams, and satisfaction with collaboration. We use Azure cloud services and benefit from redundancy and clustering. Dell EMC provides strong infrastructure and a good technical foundation. We leverage different Dell products in a cohesive infrastructure with seamless data management for improved performance and efficiency.
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We delivered and implemented it for multiple customers.
There was some workload involved in these implementations. One project was in the financial sector. Another sector was for premium watches where they had workload with respect to their engineering labs. We majorly used this for their virtual environment and databases. They had a lot of issues with their current Unity, which was another Dell product, with performance issues. As they were looking to upgrade on the Dell platform itself, we proposed Dell PowerStore. Initially, we had everything on SSD drives, which are solid-state drives or flash drives. We moved everything—the databases and the VM virtual infrastructure—to Dell PowerStore. As it was a Dell product, it was easy to migrate. They saw the improvement with that.
Majorly, it is an NVMe architecture—an all-flash system that improved our performance with low latency. It was supporting mixed workload, which is virtualization and database. The virtual machines were Linux, Windows, and everything.
View full review »We use Dell PowerStore for our midrange storage requirement and use it for our enterprise ,development infrastructure and DevOps with Kubernetes clusters.. For Prod we use DELL EMC PowerMax.
My role in using and managing Dell PowerStore involves end-to-end tasks from support to solution designing. I provision, reclaim, upgrade, maintain ,provide solutions as per application requirements and perform DR strategies along with POCs for new environments. Latest POC on Kubernetes with Rancher.
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Dell PowerStore can be used for any type of use cases because it functions as an all-in-one box. We especially use it for virtual machines and databases. Dell PowerStore has been enhanced with QLC drives and high-end file systems.
Fast-moving boxes like Dell PowerStore 500T and Dell PowerStore 1200T are the models we use most frequently. For our space, particularly in the channel business with channel partners in the SMB and mid-enterprise segments, customers primarily purchase these two models.
One customer has implemented clustering with Dell PowerStore 1200T. We do not utilize clustering solutions extensively because we can achieve advantages through data reduction ratios, which is why we focus less on clustering solutions.
Regarding performance, when NVMe architecture is implemented with NVMe drives, it delivers superior performance compared to SAS and SSD. Dell PowerStore features TLC and NVMe drives throughout the entire box, providing enhanced performance from the storage perspective. The end-to-end NVMe architecture, covering both backend and frontend, delivers more performance. This architecture provides very low latency at the controller level, which represents the main advantage of Dell PowerStore when compared to other mid-range storage boxes.
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Our main use case for Dell PowerStore is as the storage for our VDI environment. When building the VDI, we needed it to be fast, low latency, and massive amounts of IOPS. Dell PowerStore was the only thing that made sense.
We built this thing for speed, which helps the end user. When they are out in the field and they have a 5G hotspot and their internet connection, they have one bar of service; all it is is a viewer. Their processing happens in the data center on the VDI, which is Dell PowerStore, and it is instantaneous.
View full review »Dell PowerStore serves multiple critical functions for our organization. We were initially a cloud customer who became caught up in the cloud trend of putting everything in the cloud, but this approach became cost prohibitive. We had to repatriate and bring what we had in the cloud back onto on-premises infrastructure into a colocation facility. This is where we approached Dell, and they provided us with the ability to add both compute and storage capabilities. When they provided us the storage, the compression capability was exactly what we needed.
Our second use case involves our typical operations in the oil and gas industry, where we use a data historian, which is a very proprietary software with a proprietary database structure. We were not getting much compression on that system at all, and Dell PowerStore provided us with decent compression so we did not have to continuously expand our storage.
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Dell PowerStore is used for mixed workloads based on virtualization, primarily VMware. Many customers choose iSCSI, and the newly formed protocol NVMe over TCP is also available. Fibre Channel deployments have also been completed. The main reason many customers have selected Dell PowerStore is based on the 5-to-1 dedupe and compression, but workloads must be sized according to the customer's specific requirements to guarantee the 5-to-1 dedupe and compression.
I have completed Dell PowerStore installations for small, medium, and enterprise businesses ranging from PowerStore 500T, which is the entry level, up to PowerStore 9000 series. These installations have been completed on NVMe, SAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NVMe protocols across all models.
From an entry-level perspective, PowerStore 500T has limited expansion capabilities. A couple of shelves can be added, but the controllers cannot be upgraded. Starting from PowerStore 1200T, expandability is available with their performance guarantee program where controller upgrades can be performed. The latest features with PowerStore 300Q use QMLC drives, providing bigger drives and expansion capabilities. Dell also offers a 5-to-1 dedupe compression guarantee. Dell PowerStore directly integrates with Dell Data Domain where backups can be offloaded directly to the Data Domain side.
Based in South Africa and the SADEC region in Africa, many customers use co-locations or their own data centers. There is no Dell PowerStore offering in the cloud as a storage-as-a-service option based on the Dell APEX model. Many customers tend to have it deployed on-premises.
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Dell PowerStore serves as the heart of our VDI environment. All of our servers, virtual servers, and client VMs live on Dell PowerStore. Dell PowerStore is responsible for the daily operations of our VMware environment.
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I am aware of this product, and your intention is to sell this product to my company. I am selling these types of products in Bangladesh, especially in the BFSI segment. I can give you the contact person number so that you can communicate with him.
I'm dealing with products such as PowerStore, PowerEdge, and PowerProtect. For servers, I use PowerEdge, and for storage, I use Dell PowerStore.
Since the launch of Dell PowerStore three or four years ago, I have sold more than around 25 Dell PowerStore storages to different accounts in Bangladesh.
The 1200T and 500 models are used mostly by my customers, and in most cases, it's the 1200 and 500.
My customers are not clustering multiple Dell PowerStore appliances, but I recently got a purchase order from a bank whose name I prefer not to mention. They are purchasing two units of Dell PowerStore storage.
In Bangladesh, Dell PowerStore users are very familiar with the product, which makes it easy to use for moving and optimizing workloads within the cluster. It is easy to manage for the end-user. I have been providing training to the respective clients accordingly, so they know how to manage and control it, and they are fully aware of it.
View full review »My main use case for Dell PowerStore is a unique all-flash, all-NVMe, unified storage predominantly that can scale both workloads, file as well as block. The majority of our workloads that we've seen Dell PowerStore on is block and a little bit on file as well. The use case is between file and block workloads, both.
A quick specific example of how I use Dell PowerStore for file or block workloads includes tech refresh cases, replacing existing storages that we have. Customers have storages that have run out of warranties. We can go and refresh them with Dell PowerStore which makes a lot of difference because great compression or dedupe ratio, or as we call DDR, in Dell PowerStore is about 4:1 or with the new code, it's almost 5:1. We can go ahead and look at consolidating more workloads, achieving better consolidation, and better ROI.
My main use cases for Dell PowerStore include hypervisor migrations and consolidations, as well as existing tech refreshes, which are the major use cases that we are seeing at this point in time.
My main use cases for Dell PowerStore are to consolidate workloads. I have been able to consolidate data using Dell PowerStore, achieving a data reduction rate of about 2.5 to 3:1 that we've been achieving right now on the latest code that got released for Dell PowerStore. We've seen upwards of 30 to 40% betterment when it comes to production of workloads or reduction of storage footprint on different workloads, at least 40%.
View full review »I help install and manage Dell PowerStore. I installed the equipment with my supervisor and then manage part of the storage, redirecting files there. Currently, we are transitioning to a new domain and moving entire on-premises drives into that environment. I have multiple roles with it between networking and actual maintenance of it, managing the backup, and managing the data itself.
Currently, the models of Dell PowerStore are configured as stand-alone systems, but eventually, we are going to move into a vSAN between our two data centers and some of our on-premises resources. Right now, they are solo, but we are going to expand later.
View full review »We are using Dell PowerStore for block storage to run Oracle databases, and we are using it for file servers with replication, and a lot of VMware data. By VMware, I mean it is all Windows-based applications we are using it for.
We are currently using two models of Dell PowerStore: 3200 and 5200.
We are partners and an integrator. We work very closely with Dell and Pure on both technologies. Recently, I have been working on another storage array primarily for a client-specific requirement for a VAN-level data migration. We have been evaluating Hitachi and NetApp storages as well.
We have been working with the 5600 series mostly, and there are 6000 series and 7000 series as well. We have been working and consolidating on multiple storage arrays, and recently we have been working on the 5000 series storage array.
We are looking at options to evaluate. The requirement is slightly different from the data sovereignty and long-distance migration perspective, so we are evaluating multiple options.
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Mainly, we use Dell PowerStore as the central storage for all our production workloads. It’s the backbone of our virtual environment—mostly VMware—and it handles all our critical databases. Since we can't afford any downtime in production, we rely on it to keep everything running smoothly across our data centers.
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Dell PowerStore is typically used for virtualization projects at customers and for cloud environments, serving as pure virtualization block storage.
Before Dell PowerStore, I used a different solution for these use cases.
I use this solution on VMware.
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I am currently using Dell PowerStore as an external storage for enterprise solutions across multiple sectors, including the public sector, oil and gas, and banking sector. Dell PowerStore is one of the most useful and highest-performing storage solutions available. It is compatible with different work routes, allowing me to store many different work routes in Dell PowerStore. Dell PowerStore can integrate and be compatible with different servers from other vendors. The operation is very high performance for storage. I can install different work routes preferred for AI data. Additionally, I can integrate with the cloud from Dell.
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Dell PowerStore is utilized in customer environments where they need fast resilient storage, which highlights its importance in our operations.
The main use cases for us are virtualized workloads, such as clustered server environments that are attached to Dell PowerStore. It stores all their virtualized server environments, including database servers and application servers.
The reason that we brought in Dell PowerStore for this particular use case was that the environment had a database that was performing poorly. It was not clear whether it was a software issue or hardware issue, and it turned out it was a very poorly configured hardware situation. The software vendor was not really sure about what to do. We brought in this brand new Dell PowerStore, having used it since they have been available. After talking to our Dell rep, we learned it was the perfect solution for this environment to eliminate any performance issues, and that has been the case. We installed Dell PowerStore, and the application performance has never had an issue ever again.
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Dell PowerStore is a really interesting array because since it's a full NVMe array, we can consolidate all types of workloads on it, including virtualization. It's an array that can be set up in block mode or unified mode with file, so we can even put file on it and now replicate them in synchronous mode. It's really a multi-environment array. We use it a lot to implement Oracle OLVM clusters. It's really an interesting solution for doing that, in terms of its performance, and also because it supports Linux metro-cluster. We can consolidate Oracle databases with this solution under very good conditions with an excellent level of performance.
Dell PowerStore can help consolidate the data on the storage part. After that, it's clear that Dell PowerStore will be able to interface with AI solutions to provide services. That's a certainty. However, it will remain just a block on the storage side.
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Most customers are using Dell PowerStore for their data, including metadata as well as unstructured data. Storage customers do not require much AI because they need only reports on storage uptime, downtime, and management perspective. They want to know their disk size, consumption, and how much deduplication and compression they will receive.
If I go ahead with normal storage where I cannot get any deduplication and compression, I will require the full capacity. However, when I go ahead with Dell PowerStore, I will get effective capacity. For example, hypothetically, with a 3:1 compression ratio, if my data is 100 TB, I will only require 30 TB of capacity. Whereas without deduplication and compression, I would require 100 TB.
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My team's role in using or managing Dell PowerStore is that we run all our infrastructure for our shared infrastructure in all the data centers, and we run Dell PowerStore for our IaaS solutions and some backup DR solutions.
Currently, we are not using Dell PowerStore for any AI initiatives in our company or for our clients; it's primarily for IaaS workloads, so Infrastructure-as-a-Service on our shared platform for customers.
Currently, we are utilizing the 500Ts and 1200Ts models of Dell PowerStore.
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We use Dell PowerStore for the data centers and mostly for virtualization to provide storage capacity to hypervisors, using it for different use cases such as SQL databases, Exchange servers, and custom-based applications that serve different purposes.
Use cases that are mostly used involve some clients in the banks hosting main applications on Dell PowerStore, and sometimes it is used to replace previous generations of Dell products, such as Unity or VNX, where the customer base primarily consists of traditional Dell customers, along with some government institutions.
Some use cases with Dell PowerStore that can impact involve a client hosting an application for a public service that people use, and they provided feedback that the application performance has improved, and they are happy with this product.
View full review »Multiple Dell PowerStore appliances can be clustered, with the capability to connect four nodes to a single cluster. Dell PowerStore solution is used on Linux, and a customer connecting storage space from Dell PowerStore to their server can use Linux as well. We are mostly using Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux, and SUSE.
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Our company is a partner of Dell Technologies, and we primarily use Dell PowerStore as our main tool deployed across our portfolio of customers according to their requests. Dell PowerStore is one of our main components in the market that we sell to our portfolio of customers.
We have approximately 10 to 15 implementations because we do not use Dell PowerStore in-house for our purposes. We do have a lab Dell PowerStore, though I have forgotten the model. However, we sell Dell PowerStore to our clients where we provide the service of procuring it, configuring it, starting it up, and leading the roadmap for our client until the point of usage. We are not using it ourselves; we are selling it to further clients.
If the customer requests those capabilities, we do deploy metro clusters and stretched clustering. The deployment depends on the configuration and the use case requested from the client.
We had one deployment of Dell PowerStore within a Linux environment.
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Dell PowerStore was initially used as a low tier storage solution where high performance was not necessarily required. Currently, it is being used as a data store for ESXi servers and comes with all-flash storage, so performance has been significantly upgraded compared to previous Dell storage solutions. Dell PowerStore is now being used more for enterprise and mid-size customers.
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My role in using and managing Dell PowerStore involves deploying the systems, managing them, updating them, and deploying them on a daily basis for most of our end customers, which amounts to about thirty PowerStores.
The models of Dell PowerStore that I work with include 500T, 1000T, 1200T, 3200T, and 5200T.
The main use cases for Dell PowerStore among my customers are VMware for virtual machines, databases, applications, and file storage.
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Dell PowerStore's main use cases involve virtualization as the primary use case. It is SAN storage that falls under midrange storage in Dell Technologies but includes all enterprise features such as deduplication and compression, which are expected from enterprise storage.
The main benefit is that the operating system is container-based. If a service like management fails, it restarts inside a container without rebooting the whole array, which is very valuable in enterprise storage. The ease of use is significant because it is very easy for administrators.
I have deployed almost all the appliances: 500, 1000, 3000, and 5000 models.
I have had some implementations where we have done clustering, adding two nodes for the storage itself.
In general, I would say that it is easy to move and optimize workloads within the cluster.
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We work with Dell PowerStore and PowerProtect Data Domain from EMC products.
We use Dell PowerStore in Metro setups for virtualization platforms.
We use Dell PowerStore for virtualization platforms, infrastructure workloads, infrastructure components, and VDI infrastructures.
We also work with Huawei Dorado and HPE Alletra as other products.
For vSphere, we use Dell PowerStore many times, and sometimes the Kubernetes integration as well.
Built-in integrations for Dell PowerStore are important for my clients and for me personally. They are not the only reason why clients buy Dell PowerStore, but the integrations are important, especially if they streamline operations. The vSphere integration particularly streamlines operations so that there is no real need for specific storage knowledge, and you can accomplish all the common things you need during daily operations through vCenter. While it is important, it is not so important that this becomes the only point of decision for clients. However, they appreciate it, and it is a factor that counts in the decision-making process.
View full review »My usual use cases for Dell PowerStore include LUN creation for particular servers such as VMware and AIX servers.
I am working as a storage admin for a company in the banking insurance sector where Dell PowerStore has been installed, and I am providing service for this company. I am a consultant.
I am using two appliances of Dell PowerStore, which are PS5200 and PS3400. I am not clustering multiple Dell PowerStore appliances.
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My position is a solution consultant, so I promote Dell PowerStore products or recommend the products to customers.
Most applications or workloads can fit within Dell PowerStore, except for file serving or surveillance solutions, which require less extensive storage.
View full review »My use case for Dell PowerStore is for database information and database protection.
View full review »We have been mostly dealing with Dell PowerStore. We find both file and block features most valuable in Dell PowerStore. Both are good, and primarily compared to Unity, we are using the Metro feature. We are using the 3200 model of Dell PowerStore. We have two appliances, one in two sites, and we are clustering them. We are using APEX AIOps, also known as CloudIQ. We do use the solution on Linux.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is used for our hosted services that have databases, with all database storage being mapped there. We have different services with footprints that are almost 80% on cloud right now, but the remaining 20% is still on-premises. We have Active Directory, a Radius server, file storage, and some small applications that are hosted with database links. All this storage is mapped with our storage wherever required.
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Dell PowerStore is designed for large enterprises that require storage solutions with high availability and disaster recovery capabilities. I believe Dell PowerStore is the best solution for this purpose.
Dell PowerStore improves operational efficiency because when deployment issues arise, we have partners and distributors for Dell who assist us in deploying and resolving technical issues with customers.
View full review »I work with Dell PowerStore for our key VMware environment. Dell PowerStore is easy to set up, and we have experienced no issues thus far. It works well, and we have achieved the performance we were looking for. It is quite scalable for our environment, and the VMware integration is also available.
We are using Dell PowerStore 5200T model with almost 500 terabyte capacity, and we have almost four appliances.
We have been able to consolidate data to a certain extent using Dell PowerStore. From a couple of storages, we were able to consolidate them into Dell PowerStore, so consolidation was achieved.
I have not experienced any crashes, downtimes, performance issues, or stability issues with Dell PowerStore. However, I think the upgrade process could take some time, and if it becomes faster, it would be helpful.
Dell PowerStore has helped to reduce our organization's CAPEX, capital expenditures, to some extent. I would not say completely, but we are able to consolidate to reduce it.
The ability to add capacity in single drive increments versus drive packs is not very important for us because these enhancements typically do not happen at that level. It may be important for some other organizations, but not for us.
View full review »As a reseller and Dell-only reseller partner organization, I have a number of customers who are currently using Dell PowerStore. It's a solution that we find is a great solution in the market. When Dell PowerStore first came to the market, a lot of our clients had VxRail with the convergence offering that Dell had. However, now with the Broadcom split from Dell with the VMware licensing, we're finding that with having Dell PowerStore with the AX nodes and the OEM Dell VMware solution built in, it's providing a very comprehensive solution to our customers. That's really helping us grow. We certainly find Dell PowerStore to be one of the best products out there in the market in terms of use cases for a lot of our customers across the board.
Because Dell PowerStore is built in with the all-flash and the NVMe platforms and the United offering it has with the single architecture for block, files, and the virtual volumes, it provides functionality and flexible functionality for our customers. They can use Dell PowerStore for various use cases. We've got customers in FinTech, in manufacturing, and in different industries as well. It's not really just suited for one type of industry; it can be used for many types of organizations.
We're in conversations with several organizations about using Dell PowerStore for AI initiatives. AI is obviously something that's more prevalent in the market and growing. We recently had a customer who had an 82-node VxRail. They had a refresh earlier in the year. Now they have Dell PowerStore with AX nodes. They have a cyber recovery solution as well, an air gap solution with a clean room. They're looking at how they can make their supply chain more efficient since they produce manufactured kitchens. A lot of it is learning what AI is capable of doing for their business and trying to see the benefits. We tend to find that FinTech organizations and companies doing trading are more interested in that type of technology. As AI matures, we will see more use cases for them.
View full review »I use the product myself as our company's service. I act as an outsource for another company, so we can manage many devices for multiple customers, such as HPE and IBM. Dell PowerStore is used on Linux with multiple devices and multiple VMs with multiple operating systems. The storage service is provisioned to Microsoft Hyper-V with VMs, Windows VMs, and Linux. There is also an IBM Power server with the storage mapped to it, which contains both Linux and AIX, providing a variety of operating systems that exist in the environment.
View full review »My main use case is datastore storage, specifically for storing VMs.
View full review »Our use case for Dell PowerStore involves a cluster with VMware, where we have all open systems, Windows and Linux, with all that data residing in Dell PowerStore. We have SQL data, many databases, and other types of data.
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I have been both a user and a consultant and integrator, using Dell products for our local infrastructure, internal infrastructure, and reselling Dell PowerStore to our clients.
I usually recommend Dell PowerStore for medium firms, as I work with the industry sector and believe it is totally appropriate for that sector.
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In Egypt, we typically deploy one appliance consisting of two controllers. In one specific case, I was able to scale out with another chassis that included two nodes to meet the compliance requirements of a banking sector client who needed specific latency performance.
We normally work with Dell PowerStore as a unified box for both SAN and NAS. I did not deploy advanced features on Dell PowerStore, and in Egypt, we generally do not implement advanced configurations unless a specific scenario requires it. Typically, we deploy Dell PowerStore as a storage box.
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I mainly use Dell PowerStore for the storage area for customers in the SAN environment.
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I use Dell PowerStore for an application. In my last work at B3, we bought Dell PowerStore for a specific corporate back-end, back-office solution for one application to solve problems with the service desk. We created some LUNs for a SQL Server and presented them to some Microsoft Windows Clusters using Dell PowerStore, but we don't use remote replication for Dell PowerStore; it's in a single, specific solution for an application attending a SQL Server.
The solution is implemented in finance. B3 is the Brazilian stock exchange, and all the solutions I worked on there for the last 15 years were in finance.
View full review »We store all our critical business databases and applications on Dell PowerStore, and we use it as the storage for our virtualization environment, so pretty much all our workloads from virtualization to database, it's the main primary storage for everything.
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Our main use cases for Dell PowerStore include making it our primary storage platform, and we use it for our active-active data centers with synchronous replication.
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I am still dealing with Dell PowerStore storages, as it is still under my job scope. I have been able to consolidate data using Dell PowerStore through migration. This consolidation is a business-as-usual job for me.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is used for SAN in our organization.
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My customer typically uses block storage. They have Dell PowerStore in two different locations, with one serving as the production environment and the other as the disaster recovery site. Replication exists between these two locations. One hundred percent of these volumes are allocated to VMware hosts. Approximately ninety percent of the environment is virtual, but the physical machines do not have contact with the storage; only the virtual machines do. The storage is provided to the hosts, which create the datastores, and these datastores are distributed between the VMs.
The organization has Linux VMs, but the storage is not directly connected to any physical Linux machines. Dell PowerStore integration with VMware is implemented, though not with VASA, as the VASA provider was not installed because we did not want the Windows server administrator accessing the storage. However, I can see all the VMs and which datastores they are from the storage view.
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For Dell PowerStore, the major use case is for data, primarily in banks. Dell PowerStore was sold for their data, which supports their FinTrak applications. For Unity, the use case is for their VMware environment as a data store.
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My main use cases for Dell PowerStore are running mission-critical production workloads where low latency, high IOPS, and predictable performance matter. Most deployments are for virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere) hosting mixed workloads such as application servers, databases, and general VM farms.
I also use it for storage modernization and consolidation projects, replacing legacy arrays, improving performance, and simplifying operations, while keeping room for easy scale-out/scale-up capacity growth as demand increases.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is mainly used for shared storage platforms in small to medium-sized environments where performance is needed, but not necessarily extreme performance, and where a robust and easy-to-use platform is required.
Dell PowerStore could cover use cases in large enterprises for specific domains where organizations want to work in silo mode and avoid high-end platforms that require substantial investments. However, it is clearly built more for small and medium-sized businesses. We use it both internally and for projects we carry out with our clients.
View full review »I have been working with Dell PowerStore for many years now, at least five to seven years. I have held many different positions during that period where Dell PowerStore was a component in the solutions. We have used it with VMware for both traditional VMware VMFS, as well as VVol implementations. We have used it with VMware for VDI. We also have many uses for it; we use it as a unified storage array, meaning it does block and file. We have activated the file side and are doing SMB and NFS off of it.
Working in dark sites, they are all sandboxed. From the cybersecurity perspective, you are really worried about either insider threat, meaning a rogue admin is doing bad things on the array and making problems for everybody, or you are worried about outsider threats, like trying to get malware into it. But if it is in a dark site and sandboxed, it does not have that connectivity outside and you have solved your insider threat issue, then from a cybersecurity standpoint, the array is fine.
View full review »Dell PowerStore serves as the primary storage for enterprise infrastructure environments. For example, if we want to save a video or call log, or write an email, we can save that data into Dell PowerStore.
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Dell PowerStore serves as our virtualization platform disk. We use it to create testing environments using the same VM template, which reduces actual disk usage significantly.
View full review »The primary use cases of Dell PowerStore in my organization are normal use cases, like any other organization for consolidating workloads and high-performance storage, particularly database workloads. We are serving and hosting the corporate services for the organization, so all internal employees will be using these services. Almost everybody is touched; 30,000 to 35,000 users are impacted by this Dell storage in some way or another.
View full review »I use Dell PowerStore for block storage and also have some shares on it.
We decided to cluster these because we need more capacity, as we are managing petabyte-scale storage. In order to have this capacity, clustering is necessary.
We can consolidate to minimize the workload storage space. We work with it to make it a consolidated storage solution and remove unused and useless data.
Let me give you an example. We have multiple sites and our storage in one site is replicated to another site. We faced an issue with a cluster before in the virtual machines and started the VM on another site.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is used for first-line archiving and GDPR-related issues. It offers seamless integration with SQL Server and Oracle, aiding in quick access during GDPR issues.
Dell PowerStore plays a role in clustering multiple appliances and helps in optimizing workloads, despite requiring some planning and workarounds.
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I'm currently working with a Dell partner in Saudi Arabia and collaborating on EMC solutions. I'm working with Dell PowerStore, PowerScale, and Unity, especially the SAN storage and NAS storage. Dell PowerStore is used for their server environment, for ESXi, environment, for VMware environment, for database, Oracle database.
We have Dell PowerStore 3000T; we are currently using Dell PowerStore 3000T. For some customers, they have clustering of multiple Dell PowerStore appliances. I utilize the built-in integrations for VMware and Oracle ecosystems, but I found that most of the customers are not using them, even though they know that it works, especially with VMware vCenter. They prefer individual administration, meaning they go directly to Dell PowerStore rather than using vCenter to manage Dell PowerStore.
View full review »This is a medium-scale solution, and in our country, we use Dell PowerStore for medium-scale data center solutions.
We have done two replication solutions where we use the Dell PowerStore capability to replicate between them. These are the case scenarios we do for basic consolidation VMware.
In Telco companies where we use Dell PowerStore, the IOPS we obtain in certain consolidations is very high. We used to use Unity and could get approximately 100k thousand IOPS in a typical consolidation with four hosts and one data in one storage. With Dell PowerStore, we're getting close to 200,000 IOPS, which has doubled our performance.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is sold in government and education, oil and gas, and manufacturing, making this product a versatile technology that applies across all industries.
In government, I sold one Dell PowerStore with 300 TB effective capacity in one appliance, and since Ecuador is a small territory, this technology is substantial for this region.
For the government use case, they are using an on-premises only deployment model.
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Dell PowerStore is used for backing up some of the infrastructure. It is not used entirely across the whole infrastructure, only for some parts. One isolated system uses Dell PowerStore for backing it up.
The number of users utilizing Dell PowerStore is small because it is used mainly for systems, not users. If considering how many systems have access to it, the estimate is a maximum of twenty.
Dell PowerStore's capabilities with compression or deduplication technologies have not been explored for the business. Since it is not being used as primary storage, only for on-site backups, this focus has not been prioritized.
Built-in integrations with VMware, Kubernetes, or containers in Dell PowerStore have not been utilized.
Dell PowerStore is used on both Linux and Windows. There are no complaints about having to work with both Linux and Windows when using Dell PowerStore.
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My main use case for Dell PowerStore is storage for the SAN.
View full review »The main use cases of Dell PowerStore for me or my clients are mostly virtualization for virtual machines, where we put some servers into a cluster, add Dell PowerStore under it, and use it as their production environment.
View full review »Our primary use case for Dell PowerStore is in a production facility as we are a beef manufacturer, predominantly beef, and we also have lamb facilities in Ireland and affiliates in Poland. Essentially, it's for storage and factory systems, so we're storing and collecting data points, along with office functions like file and print. We have on-prem systems on site, including SCADA-like systems for collecting data points throughout the manufacturing facilities. Our core Dell PowerStore and PowerEdge use case includes a data center footprint for central managed services, finance, and our ERP system, collecting data from our factory sites and storing it centrally so that we can pull it back for reporting. Additionally, our Dell PowerStore and PowerEdge serve our disaster recovery needs, allowing us to run a site remotely from our data center.
View full review »My main use cases for Dell PowerStore on a day-to-day basis are mainly for a compute-heavy, high-performance, converged platform. Dell PowerStore does play a role in my company's AI initiatives, as we are looking at a couple of partnerships with Dell, along with Discover, to explore the AI aspects of it.
View full review »The primary use case for Dell PowerStore was for our disaster recovery site at our secondary data center.
The equipment there was already eight years old and we really needed to replace it. We couldn't get finance to back us with a big deployment and substantial funding. So we determined that we needed something that could run our critical tasks if our main data center goes offline.
While it's running particular tasks of secondary importance at that data center, it can also take the load of the critical systems that we're doing on daily backups and weekends' full backups.
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Dell PowerStore is being used in the Europe region, where approximately 1,000 users are utilizing this storage.
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I am part of the R&D team working with Dell PowerStore. I use Dell PowerStore internally in my company and utilize it for VMware integration.
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I use Dell PowerStore for SAP and some databases along with a file server.
View full review »The main use cases for Dell PowerStore in my company are for file and block storage.
View full review »In our dealings, we utilize Dell PowerStore, VxRail, and Data Domains. Dell PowerStore serves as our primary storage solution, and we have VxRail for virtualization. We utilize both VMware and Nutanix for Dell PowerStore's built-in integrations, and we have multiple use cases. These Dell PowerStore built-in integrations are very important for us, as they meet our business requirements, which is why we are moving ahead with all the procurements with Dell.
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We are working with Dell. I have been a reseller and system integrator for Dell, and we are a platinum partner for them. I have been dealing with Dell PowerStore and PowerScale for more than a decade. Dell started an India general program, and from there we became associated with them. Earlier, we were a partner for EMC Isilon, and when Dell acquired that business, we maintained a good relationship with them. That is how our story began with Dell.
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Dell PowerStore is used in enterprise environments based on my experience. The hybrid features can have integration with the public cloud like AWS or Azure so they can have seamless replication from on-premises to cloud. In my experience, Dell PowerStore is only used in the virtualized environment, which is VMware.
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Dell PowerStore is a storage product for data centers or server rooms that prepares storage for servers.
I am using just one Dell PowerStore appliance, and it is not clustered.
View full review »My current use cases for Dell PowerStore mostly involve VDI and Virtual Desktop Interface connections.
We are almost at the point of using approximately 20 Dell PowerStore appliances as separate systems, and we are using it for disaster recovery as well. We have replication and everything set up with that.
View full review »My use cases with Dell PowerStore revolve around the fact that all our infrastructure is on Dell PowerStore. Everything related to virtualization infrastructure, including all our applications and VMs, runs on Dell PowerStore.
View full review »As the administrator for Dell PowerStore, I manage its functions and ensure it operates smoothly. Dell PowerStore provides the storage for all the services we have, so every server gets its disks from there. It has a nice interface and is easy to manage.
View full review »We are using Dell PowerStore for different kinds of workloads. They use Dell PowerStore for mission-critical or high-performance purposes.
We have customers all across the globe and in different verticals, including manufacturing, healthcare, and finance. HCL Tech provides Dell PowerStore, and we also create a service model for end customers similar to storage as a service that Dell offers. There is a big contract between HCL Tech and Dell Technologies through which we use these Dell PowerStore devices and create storage as a service to support our end customers across the globe.
Our team is validating Dell PowerStore for some Gen AI use cases, but we are still working on that as it's not finalized.
We mainly work with 3000 and 5000 models. We don't work much with the entry level models.
We use Dell PowerStore for backup and for database use in the pharmacy industry. We are not clustering a lot of appliances together with Dell PowerStore. Dell PowerStore helps us consolidate 100% of our data, and we have a backup contracting in the cloud.
Next year, we are planning to make a recovery station with Dell PowerStore, a power station located in another province, another state of Argentina. We are building the premise right now to locate the server in this location. We can use all Dell servers to make a recovery station for data and applications.
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Dell PowerStore is primarily used for both block and file storage because it functions as a unified block and file storage system.
View full review »We use Dell PowerStore for storage management. We are using the 500T model. We have a standalone box and are not currently clustering multiple appliances.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is used primarily for conducting demos for customers, proof of concepts, and projects such as migration projects.
View full review »I don't use Dell PowerStore myself, but we sell it, set it up for customers, and we are also the best certified, Europe-wide, I think, also for the PowerStore area with Bechtle.
You need block storage whenever you want to give your virtual machines storage where the hard drives are essentially located. For that you rather need block storage, or for databases.
View full review »The main use cases for Dell PowerStore in my case involve using it as primary storage for a mid-range of applications hosted on VMware, as well as in disaster recovery.
We are working with multiple industries. We provide services to a variety of companies, including several security firms and financial institutions such as banks. Additionally, we operate our own site as well.
It's connected to our VMware environment. We have two appliances. We are using 1200T. We are clustering between two sides in the same building.
Some of the main use cases for Dell PowerStore include storing typical user data and virtual machines.
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That kind of integration was very specific because it's a type of security for secret services, and we haven't been involved in all the phases of implementation.
View full review »The primary use case that my clients need for Dell PowerStore is block storage for VMware and Hyper-V.
View full review »Dell PowerStore has many use cases, such as in banking and virtualization, especially database projects.
Regarding use cases, since it's flash storage, it's NVMe class flash storage, so it covers most of the cases in the industry. You can use it in mid to enterprise-class banking sectors; some customers are even using it in core banking, virtualization, and these kinds of workloads. Some other use cases are also being implemented since this is very common storage.
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I use Dell PowerStore primarily for the main site, storing database data, and I also use it for data replication between two different sites. Additionally, there are sites where I have it as an independent storage box directly attached to the respective site. For other sites, I use it as shared storage between two different hosts in the data center or servers, employing it as block storage.
I have not clustered any of them; they are always independent per site.
Most of our clients are onboarded with Apex AI Ops, also known as Cloud IQ, to monitor most issues arising in the storage box. This simplifies the lives of these clients because initially we had an on-premise virtual machine that sometimes could go offline, but now it is cloud-based and monitored via AI. It provides different alerts, so I can easily know when a client's storage is getting full or if there's a faulty battery before the client even reports the issue to the support desk. I would say it's a helpful feature.
View full review »My role in managing and using Dell PowerStore is that we have not yet adopted it, but I am exploring the possibility. I have not been using it at all.
I am not currently using Dell PowerStore models and am still in the evaluation phase, but we want to implement it and I have been exploring the systems.
I can provide examples of how this can benefit our company, especially for our unstructured AR data sources. Regarding how much I think it will affect our operations, we are really early in our AI factory steps, so I am not certain yet. However, we know where our bottlenecks are occurring, so I estimate Dell PowerStore could potentially improve performance by 30 to 40 percent in the future.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is used for storage purposes. Storage for SAP is provided by Dell PowerStore. Dell PowerStore supports our SAP environment for backups.
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My main use case for Dell PowerStore is for the storage of the Dell automated platform to let us navigate away from the hyperconverged infrastructure. I use it for our regular workloads and VMs and for large language model storage.
A specific example of how I'm using Dell PowerStore with my workloads and VMs is that we used it for the VSAN on the Dell automated platform, the vSphere, and we have also used it for a couple of large language models allowing them to connect to a larger storage array from a remote location.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is mainly used as a core storage platform for scale-out and file storage with NVMe storage.
My main use case for Dell PowerStore is block storage for VMware and virtual desktop infrastructure.
I use Dell PowerStore for my entire environment: production, QA, development, and virtual desktop. I also use it for disaster recovery.
My main uses for Dell PowerStore involve using it across my entire environment, and the data reduction is a useful function.
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For customers who are looking for a unified solution where they want a mixture of block and file systems, Dell PowerStore would be the right fit. Customers can have an array based on flash and also on spinning disk, depending on what kind of workloads they want to run. For example, if they want to do video surveillance systems, we can propose the Dell PowerStore that has only spinning disk, which they can capitalize on capacity because of the video images and related content.
View full review »Our specific use cases for Dell PowerStore at my company include all of our VMware virtualization, six clusters of five or six hosts each, Oracle clustered databases, and SAP hosts, totaling about 60 physical hosts hooked up to each unit, with performance being very good, and we are very happy.
Currently, I do not have any AI use cases for Dell PowerStore yet. We might plan to implement AI use cases for Dell PowerStore, as I've been learning about it, and would say that most likely in the next six months, we're going to do a pilot using Dell PowerStore with some other hardware as well.
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Dell PowerStore is used for any storage of files and blocks where performance, scalability, and manageability are needed.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is used in my company for storage for virtual machines and backups, and we are growing into working on doing stuff with large language models and AI. At the moment, we do not use Dell PowerStore for AI, but we're expanding into that business case.
The business case for us when we actually do expand with Dell PowerStore involves real-time analysis of phone calls, providing solutions to our customer base when they connect in with problems related to X, Y, and Z. Here are some solutions you can try to reporting code review, and all the things.
View full review »The use case for purchasing is that I am doing a hyper-converged infrastructure on Hyper-V. My main goal has been to really have redundancy and reliability in the system based on our production schedule. We cannot afford to have much downtime. Therefore, I needed a setup. We purchased Dell PowerStore at the same time. I needed a setup that would give me the reliability to run my operations pretty much all the time.
View full review »My customers usually use Dell PowerStore for their infrastructure workloads and for their business needs.
Customers mainly use it for infrastructure workloads.
Improving operational efficiency is one of the default use cases, and it is paramount.
I am a reseller and a managed services provider. We have Dell equipment in-house for our IT, and we also manage Dell equipment at our client's sites. We sell a considerable amount of Dell products as well.
View full review »Our primary use case is high-performance Block Storage. Currently, our Dell PowerStore arrays operate as standalone units supporting our traditional infrastructure, specifically for VMware datastores.
Looking ahead, we plan to integrate these arrays into more advanced DAP environments. While our current footprint is focused on virtual machines, our roadmap includes leveraging the PowerStore’s block storage capabilities for containerized workloads, ensuring a seamless transition from legacy to modern data architectures.
View full review »In my role, I am both the storage engineer and administrator and architect managing Dell PowerStore. Currently, we have two 3200T models and one 3000T model, which is a Gen 1, all running Dell PowerStore version 4.0 OS.
We use Dell PowerStore almost exclusively for high-performance workloads, mostly Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and MySQL databases.
View full review »My use cases for Dell PowerStore typically involve consolidating older storage and bringing the future of storage to our customers. Because we are a Dell partner, I sell a lot of Dell PowerStore storage, especially to modernize their infrastructure and consolidate workloads on a modern infrastructure based on Kubernetes. Dell PowerStore fits perfectly in the modern IT landscape, especially with AI.
We talk about AI, and Dell PowerStore fits perfectly for our customers, enabling a variety of user workflows and customer workflows. For manufacturing, Dell PowerStore is perfect because it empowers and speeds up their jobs, providing future-ready storage.
One of our customers uses Dell PowerStore for AI, which is currently still in study, aiming to develop an autonomous agent to capture payment. This system will implement a responsive AI agent based for each store, which needs to react quickly, and Dell PowerStore provides the low latency needed for such use cases, supporting not just one shop station but potentially thousands, handling large amounts of data and logs.
View full review »I am currently using the model 1000 for Dell PowerStore. We are using Dell PowerStore for two needs: for block storage and as a file server.
View full review »We use Dell PowerStore for our manufacturing or MES system and data warehousing.
View full review »Dell PowerStore has been a key component in our operations for over five years. I primarily know that we use the servers for data storage and backup, though I cannot describe the exact purposes in detail.
Dell PowerStore probably does not play a role in our AI initiatives yet, as we are still exploring all possibilities in that area. We will take a closer look at the opportunities, but first we need to determine what we require and then identify where we could best proceed.
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We mostly use Dell PowerStore to replace people's outdated technology. Most of the time, if it is Compellent, we use it for that. It easily outpaces Nimble, even though HPE changed its name.
We are using PowerStore 500T and PowerStore 1200T. We have multiple appliances. We have clients that have five and six now, but they are not clustering them.
View full review »It is our primary storage. We have two appliances.
View full review »We have used Dell PowerStore for service and storage needs, emphasizing products like VxRail, PowerStore, and our series rack mount servers.
View full review »We were end-of-life on our current Unity 480S all-flash arrays and needed to upgrade to a newer array, and we didn't want to have to pay the extortionate costs for renewing our support for Unity.
View full review »Our use case for Dell PowerStore is virtualization.
View full review »My use case for Dell PowerStore is virtualization and primary data storage.
View full review »We use Dell PowerStore for all of our file storage and our local storage in general. We have all of our VMs running on it, data backups, and file storage is a big thing for us, with everything else in the cloud.
View full review »We have a large Citrix environment and a large VMware environment, virtualized server infrastructure, and we use Dell PowerStore for our medical organization, so our imaging for x-rays and all those are stored on there, along with some backups.
The use case for companies to buy Dell PowerStore is that it's an all-flash storage, which is needed to save their data or applications that demand faster responses. They brought it because the read and write operations of Dell PowerStore are extremely high, and the IOPS are very good compared to the other Hitachi level storage.
View full review »The main use case for Dell PowerStore is that it hosts our production base and the virtualization infrastructure.
View full review »My overall use case for Dell PowerStore is amazing, and the most valuable feature is yet to be determined.
View full review »I use it in the financial sector for banking, specifically for core banking applications, to serve our applications. We served different types of customers, ranging from oil and gas to the financial sector, education, and healthcare. We deployed Dell PowerStore in different industry segments, such as manufacturing and retail, for example.
View full review »We use Dell PowerStore for VM storage.
View full review »We are resellers and Dell partners, so we install Dell PowerStore for our customers.
View full review »Some of the primary use cases that we deploy Dell PowerStore for is for fairly normal infrastructure things. We have one offer at the moment where we have a customer considering a replacement of Oracle database appliances with Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell PowerStore.
It's for a utility company which requires strict governance standards. Furthermore, they are implementing Cyber Vault, which complements their end-to-end Dell infrastructure.
View full review »Our use case specifically for Dell PowerStore is for our e-commerce and data saving purposes. For our partners, we are helping to build Dell PowerStore solutions because it's very easy to reduce the size of the data. It's possible to reduce the size of data five to one compared to other competitors, which is a huge advantage. It saves space in the rack and provides other benefits.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is our Tier 2 storage used for general-purpose servers and applications.
View full review »Our company's use case for these products includes SAN storage, virtual machines, and VM storage, particularly with Dell PowerStore, which we have been using for approximately four years now.
View full review »The main use cases for Dell PowerStore involve using it for applications that are compute and storage-sensitive. It is mainly the monitoring system that has a heavy load. Other than that, there are some critical internal applications that cannot have any time drift.
One of the specific challenges we are trying to address is migrating from our existing infrastructure. The power consumption isn't entirely dependent on Dell PowerStore, but when it comes to heavy applications, the power consumption goes high. We have a Dell PowerStore at three or four sites right now. We are trying to see if we can roll it out to another three to five sites.
We have about five Dell PowerStore appliances, and we are using the 500T model.
I am primarily using the solution in mostly virtualized environments. This includes databases and a diverse mix of virtualization.
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I use the solution for storage, databases, and visualization. It serves as a storage option for our server.
View full review »I use the product for computers to connect servers with storage, integrating computations and actions performed on the servers with vCenter and a single console or storage console.
View full review »Dell PowerStore was attached to an SQL Database that needed to have high performance, and since the application was not very well written, the only solution was to put it on flash storage. In my company, we felt that Dell PowerStore stood out for us as a high-performance storage device in the market.
I have been able to consolidate data using Dell PowerStore for our clients, and there are many examples of this happening.
Regarding examples of how much data was consolidated or the data reduction rate, I cannot comment easily on that because those figures are not very generic and depend on the case type and the nature of the data involved.
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We use Dell PowerStore for our local operations and as a backup service that we provide. We use it for some VMware, but it's primarily for backups.
View full review »I am dealing with Dell PowerStore, PowerScale, and PowerEdge.
View full review »We deploy a platform that is a virtualization platform, and we provide it to our customers. Dell PowerStore is the fundamental storage backbone underneath our platform. We use it to store their operating system information, their data, and all their workloads. We have been using Dell PowerStore for years.
View full review »My use case for Dell PowerStore is to have a faster storage platform.
View full review »I have implemented Dell PowerStore primarily for use cases involving straight-up service in virtualization, which includes fewer VDIs and more generic services.
Dell PowerStore is designed for core business processes such as ERP, redundancy, and related operations. Dell PowerStore is a powerful platform that provides storage capabilities with NVMe drives and delivers excellent throughput along with deduplication. Deduplication is highly effective with Dell PowerStore, and there is no performance lag associated with this feature. This represents a very important advantage.
Most of my clients use Dell PowerStore on Windows operating systems.
View full review »We have implemented Dell PowerStore for small sites needing mirrored storage. To ensure high availability, the storage is set up in two different locations, possibly in the same building but far apart.
For example, when you have a large warehouse that could have almost 800 meters between the server rooms, we put one in one server room and one in the other. If something happens to the one on one side of the building, you still have the other one.
I use the solution in my company as block storage.
View full review »I use the solution in my company for the storage of the data in our centralized IT infrastructure.
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There is a lot of deduplication and compression involved, virtualization projects, and some databases where we get better compression and deduplication.
View full review »We primarily use Dell PowerStore as part of our VMware infrastructure and other Dell servers.
View full review »We are a Dell partner and have been installing PowerStores since the beginning of their release. Austria is a small market so we usually deploy PowerStore 1200 and for smaller installations, we deploy PowerStore 500. We have a few customers that use PowerStore 3200.
The primary use case for PowerStore is typical block storage for VMware environments and for SQL and Microsoft bare metal systems.
View full review »We use Dell PowerStore for enterprise servers and backup servers.
Our organization is resistant to migrating to the Cloud and Dell PowerStore can hopefully help us change that way of thinking.
Most of our deployment is on-premise but we have some hybrid models using AWS and Azure.
View full review »We use the Dell PowerStore 1000, 5000, 5200, 7000, and 9200 models in our environment. We have a ten-petabyte environment and we use it for structuring storage for our SQL data basis, our search engine, and backend storage for our Kubernetes environment.
View full review »Most of our solution's use cases include VMware. There are migrations from several different platforms and servers using virtual environments.
View full review »We have a lot of distribution centers, and we are looking at infrastructure that gives us that low latency and helps us with the IoT and edge computing, like, robotic arms and things like that.
We implemented Dell PowerStore to address security and latency in our infrastructure.
View full review »We use Dell PowerStore for our SAN appliances. It holds and runs pretty much all of our infrastructure. All our network devices connect to it, and then that runs block-based storage for all our VMs.
View full review »We usually use Dell PowerStore in enterprise environments like banks and financial insurance companies that use it for their core banking.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is useful in the area of virtualization and block storage.
We expedite the process for our clients. We use it for database processes.
It's a great product. Integrating PowerStore with the IT workflow is easy.
View full review »In our company, we use Dell PowerStore for IBM SAN Volume Controller. Dell PowerStore is useful for areas like storage, database, and VMware.
View full review »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.
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.
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 »We use private cloud solutions. We have 80-plus setups, and PowerStore is in all of our smaller sites for databases, backups, and VM instances.
We implemented PowerStore for its reliability. We know what we get with it and have specific requirements for uptime.
View full review »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 »We use Dell PowerStore for developing applications.
View full review »We use Dell PowerStore for virtualization.
Our customers implement PowerStore for its performance and the possibility to utilize AI in the future.
View full review »We're evaluating the product. We're evaluating various storage platforms. We're looking for ACI, block, and file storage.
View full review »We mainly use the solution for virtual server infrastructure and block storage (not file storage use).
View full review »We have a lot of Dell systems and backup repositories. We are now migrating to Dell PowerStore.
We are implementing Dell PowerStore to migrate from older systems and improve performance and security.
View full review »We use Dell PowerStore with the VMware platform for block storage.
Our customers implement Dell PowerStore for the performance and deduplication compression ratio. For all the PowerStores that Dell deployed, I am around three dot eight or three dot six compression. It depends on the VMs and the customer's infrastructure, but it's quite good.
Our deployments are always on-premises for organizations in multiple industries, including medical and production. The environments are small, with around 20 terabytes of data or less.
View full review »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.
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.
View full review »We primarily use the solution for storage.
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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.
View full review »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 »I use Dell PowerStore in my company as a storage system.
Typically, the customer uses it and we manage it. We primarily use it to host the sub server.
View full review »We sell Dell PowerStore to multiple organizations in our country including lawyer firms and integration companies.
Some of our deployments are on-premises and others are hybrid. We offer our private cloud to customers and some use AWS.
View full review »Our primary use case is for block storage for VMware.
View full review »We have customers in the United States Army across the continental U.S. and overseas. All the data centers in the army are heavily powered by Dell.
We deploy PowerStore based on our customer's requirements. Some are on-prem, others in the Cloud, and some use a hybrid model.
View full review »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 primarily use the solution for storage and data reduction.
View full review »We're using the solution for a specific application called Boomi for data analytics.
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Our clients mainly use it for additional workloads in databases and EDI.
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Dell PowerStore is used in the BFS industry.
View full review »We are in the process of replacing our current SANs, FTP servers, and NAS servers, and have already implemented the new SAN solution.
View full review »We are using and providing storage. This is all-flash storage.
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.
View full review »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.
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 »We typically use Dell PowerStore 500T and 1000T models.
We sell and integrate Dell PowerStores to our customers who use it for block storage.
View full review »We are especially active in the mid-market and use Dell PowerStore for block storage situations and general-purpose storage platforms.
View full review »Dell PowerStore is the main storage product we use for our customers. When we sell storage products, Dell PowerStore is always the first one we propose.
View full review »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.
We use the solution for visualization and protection of the environment.
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We use this solution for storage. I'm an enterprise architect.
View full review »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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Dell PowerStore is primarily used for high-performance applications, such as databases, but it is also suitable for virtualization and other applications.
View full review »We are using Dell PowerStore primarily for SAP applications as block storage, for replication across different locations.
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »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.
View full review »We utilize Dell PowerStore for VMware and to establish an OpenShift environment for deploying applications on the customer's end.
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.
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.
View full review »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.
Our primary use case for Dell PowerStore is for data protection and data transfer.
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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.
View full review »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.
View full review »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 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.
View full review »I'm a systems engineer and we have a partnership with Dell.
View full review »They use Dell PowerStore to build virtualization.
View full review »Our primary use case for this solution is virtual machines and file server databases.
View full review »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.
We are a cloud service provider and we use Dell EMC PowerStore for the storage.
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