2020-08-16T08:00:00Z

What needs improvement with Dell PowerPath?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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Derrick Brockel - PeerSpot reviewer
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2024-01-03T17:57:33Z
Jan 3, 2024

The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR. When we use 3PAR storage, we have to use another technology to load balance. The product must be integrated with other products like Dynatrace for reliability management.

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Vaidyanathan Swaminathan - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-11-13T10:18:10Z
Nov 13, 2023

Dell PowerPath should cost less since it has become very expensive nowadays. The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. After Dell took over EMC, the support has actually degraded, meaning the quality of support has gone down a bit. Even though you get a single window of approach and all those things with the support offered by Dell, there are definitely a lot of improvements required.

Naveed Muhammad - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-07-03T10:58:38Z
Jul 3, 2023

Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux. The adoption rate for the product is not much.

Rami Jadallah - PeerSpot reviewer
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2021-11-25T14:34:36Z
Nov 25, 2021

While I utilize it for data migration, I would love to do that data migration in a GUI from an ease of use perspective. I would love to have this feature in the future. I would love to work in host-based migration instead of the native operating system tools. If there is an operating system that is discontinued, PowerPath will now also stop the support for that operating system; for example, in the case of Solaris. I would prefer them to keep supporting that system, however, at the same time, I can understand why they have discontinued services.

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2020-08-16T08:00:00Z
Aug 16, 2020

Although PowerPath is very mature and has been on the market for more than 15 years there are still a lot of bugs that have been profiled with PowerPath, specifically during any OS upgrade. In certain cases PowerPath doesn't have the capability to do an automatic scanning of discs. Also PowerPath is very specific to EMC portfolios and very few other products on the market. It is not wide open for the other vendors in the market. And EMC has competitors like HP, Hitachi, IBM, and Pure Storage. There are a lot of other competitors for EMC storages, but PowerPath doesn't have the capability to support a wide variety of storages in the market, it only works with specific products. I felt that being in the market for more than 15 years it should the capability and have matured enough to support the various products in the market. This is what I feel needs improvement. Specifically, they have to open their compatibility with other products in the market. That is what I would see improved first. Additionally, let's say a customer is moving towards a private cloud. How is PowerPath going to play a role? They need to educate the customers with what the product can do.

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