Dell PowerStore Valuable Features
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Ilan Ben Shetrit
Sales Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
- The level of virtualization is a big feature. This is the most important thing in PowerStore.
- PowerStore has a very good replication tool.
- It has a good NAS environment. It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments.
- The container and its ability to connect directly to the cloud. We can use a lot of workloads and get all the workloads that we need. For example, we can get VMware directly from PowerStore and move it to the Cloud or any other containers. This is an added value of PowerStore. If you want to solve a workload problem, this is the best way.
Once you build an environment based on a container, it is a big benefit because you can take the workloads from the cloud directly to on-premises and vice versa. It is a big benefit, especially in an environment based on VMware, a virtualization environment, and heavy storage.
OpenManage Console is the best tool that Dell has. It is a great thing. We use it to configure the networking. It helps you realize what you need to discover. It is a little bit heavy. However, after that, it is a very user-friendly tool. It can connect to any vendor, switch, storage, etc. I would rate OpenManage Console as nine out of 10.
View full review »The usage of the system is very straightforward. It is simple and easy to use.
It has great snapshots. I can take a million snapshots and also schedule the timing.
There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go.
This generation of the product, overall, has been very nice.
It is stable.
The solution can scale.
View full review »The simplicity and ease of use have been very valuable features. I have a very small team, and only half of the team is well versed in the HP product. Whereas if I bring PowerStore in, everyone can learn it because it will be new on the floor.
Also, the simplicity of the administration, snapshot capabilities, and its replication are other features of PowerStore that I've found to be valuable.
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Dell PowerStore
March 2024
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Eldad Ohana
System Administrator at Haaretz
The solution is very easy to implement.
It's stable.
The solution can scale.
Its pricing structure is reasonable.
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Diego Scaravaggi
System Administrator at Fortech
Three years ago, I was a little scared about PowerStore because I have been working with storage solutions for many years and have a habit of maintaining additional storage machines, firmware, interfaces, and so on. I noticed that PowerStore is a totally virtualized solution. PowerStore runs container, docker, and so on, and the firmware is managed in a different manner, which is a good point for total virtualization of the firmware and so on. But on the contrary, it's like a black box for me. It is different to work on PowerStore compared to IBM. I worked in the past with IBM ESS 800 Shark Storage. The type of super virtualization in PowerStore is a startup feature. A digital machine is present inside the storage server when this startup feature is launched. This digital machine can be managed entirely remotely, with an automatic download available from Dell. We started with the solution's initial version three years ago, and now we are working on one of its latest versions.
View full review »Some of the new features that are coming out, like vVols support are valuable. We're very excited about it. Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us.
We've just heard that in the second half of this year, they will come out with support for vVols and the storage replication of those, which are new features. We're very excited about those. We've been waiting for them for a while.
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Jacques DUVERNOIS
Technical Team Leader for Servers and Storage at Orange
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, et cetera. I don't have to help him anymore. That is the beauty of this unit and it's due to the effort Dell EMC put into the GUI.
The VMware integration is very good. It integrates all the vSphere interactions when you create your data store, directly from the PowerStore GUI, into your VMware cluster. My colleague who was the VMware administrator is now able, in one shot, to provision his storage and automatically create a data store relying on this storage. That has freed up some of his time.
Another important feature is the power of this frame. It's very powerful. We have almost less than a millisecond of response time, all the time, even during backup windows. That's very good compared with the VNX, of which we have two. We also have a Unity connected on this same SAN for the same kind of application. We did a comparison among the three models of frames, the VNX, which is rather old, the Unity full flash, which is not so old, and the PowerStore. PowerStore is really on top of all of them.
Of course, it enables us to add compute and capacity independently. We add a lot of VMware clusters in our SAN thanks to the PowerStore. We are going to decommission the old VNXs because it's better adding capacity on the PowerStore than keeping the old models.
View full review »It's a versatile box that has different kinds of protocols that can be switched off and on. They have their own encryption which is good. It also has its own file formatting protocol, which saves us a lot of space.
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Rob Morc
Responsable arwuitectura at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Its flexibility is valuable because we have had some moments where we had to adapt, and it has been quite flexible.
The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions.
We require the most up-to-date NVMe technology.
We like the performance of Dell PowerStore.
Most of the features are available, including support for NVMe and a mix-and-match of storage devices.
View full review »A particularly valuable feature is its simplicity. The reporting tools and support are good, and the solution promotes data reduction, often meeting the compression ratio. You can initially invest in less upfront capacity and expand later as needed.
The initial setup is very straightforward.
The architecture is very good.
It's a reliable product.
The data reduction feature is quite useful. It has a good reduction ratio during migrations.
The solution is stable.
View full review »The solution's most valuable features are the quick data compression process and ease of scalability for all types of support contracts.
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Brian Ricci
President at Pinnacle Computer Services, Inc.
This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities.
The equipment is standardized and can be easily upgraded by replacing the controllers.
The disk sizes are also quite adequate, and the solution is user-friendly. Additionally, it offers extremely fast performance.
One of the benefits of their continuous improvement approach is that each update comes with additional features, without any extra charges for previously missing functionalities.
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reviewer1860756
Storage Specialist at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
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Fred Berg
Coordinator at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable feature of the solution is the deduplication part, which is very good. The deduplication part of the solution is valuable since, as a user, you get more space for less money.
The product's performance is very good and matches up or exceeds the performance offered by the previous product in our company.
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Sander
IT Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
We noticed that the PowerStore has a really high compression ratio for data. It's really good for data deduplication and also compressing the data on the drives. The PowerStore's compression ratio is even higher than the Unity system. Also, the way the PowerStore is built with special CPUs for moving data around. The systems also have lower CPU utilization compared to Unity systems.
The solution's scalability, capacity, and performance are great.
Migrations are very easy and fast. The solution works well with native products such as VxRail, Unity, or VMware.
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reviewer1526187
Chief Information Officer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
My guys have told me that the administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier.
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Ramon Bannink
Senior System Administrator at Graafschap College
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. Due to the deduplication technology in the product, my organization needs just a little storage for many servers, meaning the new technology within Dell PowerStore is a big advantage for us.
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reviewer1852581
Sr. Manager, Data Center Practice at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our older PowerStore is where most of our demos are located. We're just using it as a block of storage and storage to power the VMware environment. That's been our main use case.
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Mario Gonzalo
Arquitecto infraestructura
It is very easy to use. Access is very friendly. It shows you a lot of important information at the first glance. It has been very easy to use.
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reviewer1087536
Solution Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
When compared to Pure Storage, Dell PowerStore's cost was quite attractive.
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reviewer1528422
Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features include
- easy of use
- performance in terms of read-write capacity.
It is also important that you can add compute and capacity independently. We have sized the solution based on our current needs, but in the future we can choose to increase capacity if we grow our activity in the market. And if we have more business in our monetary system, we can increase compute. The ability to choose what we increase is a good feature.
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Peter Kidiavai
Storage Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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. It's active, so you can have two nodes on one appliance. If Node A goes down, you still get node B at the bottom running.
I would rate PowerStore's machine learning and AI eight out of 10 because customer automation is very easy. It's just a click of the button, You can also use what they call Cloud IQ, which is an online storage and monitoring software. If you log on to the internet, you can check on your plans to see how much space is left. Cloud IQ analytics software is free as long as you have an account with Dell.
Dell's built-in intelligence is the best because it can also calculate how much data is needed for storage beforehand and if you need to add more drives or anything. The built-in intelligence can adapt quickly to changing workload requirements. We were able to migrate from IBM storage by uploading an image. With other devices, it's sometimes hard to migrate from different forms of storage, but PowerStore was very quick. We didn't have any downtime because once we were able to create the image, we just had to do a cut-over on the other side.
Pretty soon it's going to be Meditech certified, so it's going to be able to run Meditech. Right now we are using a different solution to run Meditech, but once it gets certified, we'll be able to move from the other appliance. VMware integration is very easy too. PowerStore gives us leverage, we can tell how much space is allocated to the VM and what's happening on a VM.
Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued.
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reviewer2318379
Coordinator Team Infrastructure at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The deduplication functionality provided by the solution is fairly good. The speed offered by the product is enough for our organization. Our organization also has Dell EMC XtremIO, which is a bit faster, though Dell PowerStore alone is more than enough for us.
View full review »Data compression is a great feature.
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SushilKumar1
Security Officer at Videocon Intelligent Security Private Limited
The compression is excellent. It helps save space and allows us to allocate more space to the client.
The initial setup is easy.
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Niwat Srinamngern
Solutions Architect/ Consultant at IVT
The deduplication and compression features are quite impressive because when we enable this feature on other products, such as HPE 3PAR, we have a lot of latency. With PowerStore, we don't have that issue.
This device is less CPU intensive than the EMC Unity and the HPE 3PAR.
PowerStore supports the iSCSI interface, which we find helpful. We use one for our fiber channel but another one for iSCSI.
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AmmarRasheed
Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is easy to use and has good performance.
View full review »The most valuable features of Dell PowerStore are the support for NVMe and SCM, which provides end-to-end performance and high IOPS, minimizing latency. It is a full-fledged storage solution.
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Jorg Lorbeer
IT Administrator at a construction company with 201-500 employees
For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance.
Also, the live dedupe application is very good.
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Maurizio Davini
CTO at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Flexibility
- Performance
- Easy 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.
It enables us to add compute or capacity independently. We have also deployed some apps on PowerStore, even though the PowerStore we have is not the biggest one you can buy. One of the main characteristics of PowerStore is that it is like another piece of VMware, so you can run applications on top, applications that have direct access to the storage. The ability to add compute or capacity independently is great because it adds more flexibility to our environment. You are not adding only storage, but you're adding some not-so-big computing capability. You have the possibility of adding some virtual machines, running NVMe storage, and that is a real plus for this solution.
In addition, PowerStore's built-in intelligence for helping to simplify IT operations is incredible. When we approached PowerStore, we had an idea that it was a normative platform, but we were impressed by the capability of the solution. It's probably one of the best pieces of storage that we have installed here.
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reviewer1648785
Technical Support Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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. At the site where it is located, there are about eight servers connected. The high IOPS support our needs. It is very performant.
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Vinod Raj
Customer support engineer at Al Khalili Technology LLC
I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable.
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Duco Rob
Founder and CEO at Desktoptowork
The way you're able to manage all your PowerStores as one solution is very good for us. PowerStore enables you to federate or cluster multiple appliances with automated load balancing. In terms of management, it's helpful that we can do it from a single interface where we're able to manage multiple PowerStores. When you have multiple PowerStores, it works intelligently by running the workloads based on the needs of the infrastructure.
The solution's machine learning and automation work well when it comes to optimizing resources. It does inline deduplication which means that the net the amount of storage you have available is bigger. It can do all kinds of optimization in the system itself and that works very well.
The most valuable feature of Dell PowerStore is the all-NVMe flash storage. This is the most powerful feature of this series. It supports compression and duplication leads.
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reviewer1852080
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The interface is very easy to use and easy to install. Everything essentially comes with it. All of the software is there for us.
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reviewer1852449
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The supportability of SCME drives for faster data access from PowerStore and is the most valuable feature.
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Ben Kuo
Sales Manager at Yottatech
I have found the most valuable part of Dell PowerStore is the price.
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reviewer2076852
System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
This is an interesting solution and I find the mapping to be a great feature.
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Pawel Augustyn
System Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have found the duplication compression feature very valuable.
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Dell PowerStore
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Dell PowerStore. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.