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Dell VPLEX pros and cons

4.0 out of 5
 

Dell VPLEX Pros review quotes

it_user600753 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 2, 2017
VPLEX offers a large compatibility matrix and valuable features.
it_user234567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer - Storage Resource Management at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 5, 2017
The business continuity is sorted, as the data is in two data centers, i.e., readable and writable, and if one side goes down, there is no downtime and the other side continues non-disruptively.
it_user605046 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Architect - Storage at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 8, 2017
With VPLEX, we are able to automate this process where failovers between sites now occur automatically.
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it_user605055 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer - Enterprise Infrastructure Services (Core Engineering) at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 8, 2017
For a new application setup, it worked like a charm.
it_user607395 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Technical Architect, Global Services, Systems Integration, North America at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Feb 12, 2017
With the help of EMC VPLEX we simplified the architecture and improved the response time.
it_user607407 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 12, 2017
Due to the large number of models and different brands it is a very good solution to virtualize volumes.
it_user607419 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Consultant at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 12, 2017
It’s a great product; very reliable.
it_user607431 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 12, 2017
We have see performance improvement in our databases.
it_user797607 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO with 11-50 employees
Jan 5, 2018
Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement.
reviewer1336878 - PeerSpot reviewer
Governor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 8, 2020
The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots.
 

Dell VPLEX Cons review quotes

it_user600753 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 2, 2017
Much room for improvement exists.
it_user234567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer - Storage Resource Management at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 5, 2017
It needs to improve the thin reclaim on certain arrays.
it_user605046 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Architect - Storage at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 8, 2017
The licensing model for enterprise storage (EMC VMAX) and integrating the solution into the actual storage frames instead of a separate product.
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it_user605055 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer - Enterprise Infrastructure Services (Core Engineering) at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 8, 2017
Based on our requirements, we bought this product for doing online data migrations without data disruption, but we realized that there is a limit to backend storage that can be encapsulate to it.
it_user607395 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Technical Architect, Global Services, Systems Integration, North America at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Feb 12, 2017
Cost. This is really expensive.
it_user607407 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 12, 2017
We experienced increases in latency in accesses to disks and some bugs on engines.
it_user607419 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Consultant at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 12, 2017
Maybe setup a one-to-many cluster, instead of just a 1-to-1.
it_user607431 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 12, 2017
Initial setup was a little bit complex when connecting to VMAX.
it_user797607 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO with 11-50 employees
Jan 5, 2018
VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption.
reviewer1336878 - PeerSpot reviewer
Governor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 8, 2020
I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications.