Dell SC Series pros and cons

One of the most valuable features is the capability to switch between all-flash to hybrid, which have have actually done for one of our arrays. We started with the hybrid, with the limited if I'm not mistaken, and then over a period of time, we swapped all the hybrids with the SSDs. This was one of the big features because it gave us the capability to not stick with just one kind of media. Secondly, since it has sorted clustering, we were able to bring in the newer boxes and have it all clustered together. These were the two main features that we really looked into, which benefited our use case from an expansion/growth perspective. Another valuable feature is the ease of management.

The setup is straightforward.

Customers are most impressed with SC's provisioning because you don't need to buy a large amount of storage upfront. It's pay-as-you-grow. It also has solid compression and duplication features.

It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things.

What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability.

I've found the stability to be very good.

The Dell support is helpful and the response is quick. The agents' knowledge is very good.

The solution is stable.

The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten.

The flexibility of this solution has been valuable for our business.

What I understand is that this is a 13 year old architecture, so it has lived its life and they're phasing it out. Honestly, we were initially struggling with the integration with VMware (but it was fixed with the VMware 6.5) and, then, it was around a 10GB network. At that time, it had the longevity to go to 100GB as well. It got us thinking about, when we go into the containerized architecture, what do we need to do to fix the infrastructure?

In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency.

The SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage.

Dell could improve the upgrading process.

The lack of reporting would be the main issue.

From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old.

The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series.

While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations.

The price could be improved.

This solution could be improved if overall performance was improved and operated with a higher speed and supported a higher volume of RAM.