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Dell VPLEX pros and cons

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Dell VPLEX Pros review quotes

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.
it_user1068204 - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert Stockage at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Apr 30, 2021
The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily.
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AM
Storage and Backups Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 16, 2021
The solution works well. It's very reliable.
Sayed Zuber - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Storage And Backup Engineer at OMNIdata Trading, Lda.
Feb 14, 2023
The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility.
RW
Senior System Engineer at Unilab Systemhaus GmbH
Mar 9, 2023
Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly.
KV
Sr Consultant at T-Systems ICT India Pvt. Ltd.
May 19, 2023
Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data.
ZM
Information Technology Service Delivery Manager at Sat Microsystem
Jul 18, 2023
Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract.
 

Dell VPLEX Cons review quotes

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.
it_user1068204 - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert Stockage at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Apr 30, 2021
With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom.
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AM
Storage and Backups Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 16, 2021
The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors.
Sayed Zuber - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Storage And Backup Engineer at OMNIdata Trading, Lda.
Feb 14, 2023
VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply.
RW
Senior System Engineer at Unilab Systemhaus GmbH
Mar 9, 2023
The initial setup is complex.
KV
Sr Consultant at T-Systems ICT India Pvt. Ltd.
May 19, 2023
There can be delays in getting performance reports.
ZM
Information Technology Service Delivery Manager at Sat Microsystem
Jul 18, 2023
Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure.