Dell PowerStore Pros review quotes

JD
Apr 25, 2022
The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use this frame. I am a SAN administrator, but I was able to train my colleague, who had only been a VMware administrator, on the PowerStore in about half a day. Now he's autonomous in assigning volumes and creating data stores...
DS
Apr 18, 2023
The solution's technical support is excellent. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.
MJ
Nov 15, 2021
I like the performance of the PowerStore. When you talk about PowerStore, it's mainly about flash systems and high-end IOPS. The 1000T is a midsize box, in terms of the way the vendor positions it, but it is more than enough for our needs.
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MD
Mar 5, 2021
Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use.
IB
Jul 13, 2022
It provides a big benefit when upgrading a new VMware environment. For example, in a big environment with 10 to 30 ESXs, you can take everything and put that into PowerStore. So, it is cost-effective, which is very important and has been massive for us. You reduce almost 80% from the hardware and work directly from PowerStore. Building hardware, especially in a big VMware environment, is a big issue for my organization.
RB
Dec 4, 2023
The most valuable feature of the solution for me is the deduplication part, especially since most of the servers in our organization are Windows-based servers.
JL
Oct 28, 2021
For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance.
BC
Mar 8, 2021
The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier.
FB
Dec 4, 2023
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
PK
Nov 10, 2021
PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes.
 

Dell PowerStore Cons review quotes

JD
Apr 25, 2022
The NAS part is very poor. It's very basic. Even Dell EMC has said that to us. We are waiting for version 3 of PowerStore for that. This must be improved and it is in the roadmap.
DS
Apr 18, 2023
The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object.
MJ
Nov 15, 2021
During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us.
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MD
Mar 5, 2021
Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster.
IB
Jul 13, 2022
The storage could be improved. I would like a feature for how to best secure an appliance and the storage since we are connecting the container to the public cloud. I would like them to develop another level of security, making it more secure than from what they have now.
RB
Dec 4, 2023
While using Dell PowerStore's interface in our organization, we sometimes miss out on some information.
JL
Oct 28, 2021
The upgrades themselves are running fine, but after the upgrade is when we have a problem. With the update to 1.4, we had a head crash. They told us, 'This is a known issue. Please upgrade to 2.' We upgraded to 2 and, one week later they told us, 'Yeah, there are some issues in 2.0.0. You can lose data. Please upgrade to 2.0.1.' Overall, they need to make the system stable.
FB
Dec 4, 2023
When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements.
PK
Nov 10, 2021
The price is on the higher side.
Ken Boyer - PeerSpot reviewer
May 3, 2022
Reporting is an area that could be improved. It's very simplistic sometimes, and some of the very technical guys on my team want to see more of the details and be able to massage the report a little bit better.