2020-10-27T16:08:13Z

What needs improvement with Dell PowerVault?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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Sebastien Chene - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2024-01-12T15:23:57Z
Jan 12, 2024

The product is generally stable, but there have been instances, to my knowledge, where we faced issues in the controller during software upgrades. The availability is not at the desired level during these upgrade processes, as we sometimes need to shut down both controllers. This could be an area for improvement.

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Marc Gaethofs - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-11-01T10:38:14Z
Nov 1, 2023

Many features are coming up for Dell PowerVault. Most of these features are available on the Dell cloud IO platform. They include reporting and monitoring capabilities. While some customers may not need all these features, the platform performs very well for a particular region. It is a good solution with many possibilities for every type of customer. Customers who need more features than PowerVault offers can scale up to the next model, such as PowerStore, PowerScale, vPlex, or Extreme IO. The possibilities are endless. There could be a starting model where you have a central storage solution for a pretty good price.

GP
Reseller
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2023-10-03T10:01:16Z
Oct 3, 2023

The high prices of the solution are an area of concern where improvements are required. In the future, I would like Dell PowerVault to provide me with replication features since, currently, it is a feature for which you need to make certain payments and is not included in the standard package provided by Dell.

Md. Hamidul Haque Razu - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10Leaderboard
2023-08-16T04:10:00Z
Aug 16, 2023

There have been situations when our customers requested professional support and the price of that feature is quite high. I believe that customizing the pricing or offering some sort of flexibility regarding professional support would be of great benefit.

IM
Real User
Top 20
2023-07-14T13:30:29Z
Jul 14, 2023

If the solution came with a synchronous application, it would be particularly advantageous for small businesses operating across multiple sites.

MinaMagdy1 - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-06-02T04:38:40Z
Jun 2, 2023

PowerVault doesn't integrate with Active Directory. Other storage solutions offer SAN and NAS unified storage in a single appliance, but PowerVault is only SAN.

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Dragan Knezevic - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10Leaderboard
2023-05-30T15:50:00Z
May 30, 2023

Dell PowerVault is block-oriented storage only. It could benefit if Dell PowerVault's storage could support blocks and files. Dell PowerVault is a simple base model storage system where you receive as much as you pay, and you cannot expect more than you paid for. It is good to have file protocols instead of a dedicated NAS device, even for small environments. It is better to have only one reliable storage than some NAS devices. It is better to have a unified storage system that supports block and file protocol for the environment. Some other functionalities should be improved. The power functionality adaptive RAID improves the functionality compared to the traditional rate.

NS
Reseller
Top 20
2023-04-12T04:51:38Z
Apr 12, 2023

The solution has made a lot of improvements when you compare it now to ten years ago. Sometimes integrating into a cluster can be difficult as you have to do it manually.

AM
Consultant
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2023-03-17T11:54:14Z
Mar 17, 2023

The price of the solution could be lower.

Abdul Rehman Abid - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-01-09T17:08:43Z
Jan 9, 2023

Dell PowerVault could improve by having a higher cache and file protocol support added.

Nipuna Nakandala - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-08-31T11:32:02Z
Aug 31, 2022

We've had some control issues. Otherwise, over the last five years, it's worked well. The implementation process takes a while. The UI could be better.

JK
Reseller
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-08-04T20:36:12Z
Aug 4, 2022

I would like Dell to improve on the configuration of the disk groups. Only one group is expandable. Once you configure the other disk group types, you cannot expand them. It limits scalability. If you want maybe to grow a disk group, you lose information, and then you need to build it up again, which is not a good use case for customers. Maybe they could upgrade the firmware to allow other kinds of disk groups that are the usual disk group protection. It should let you expand without destroying the disk groups first.

SR
Real User
2022-02-03T11:13:00Z
Feb 3, 2022

PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud.

SM
Real User
2021-08-07T10:35:05Z
Aug 7, 2021

I'll need to replace Dell soon because it's almost obsolete and considered old technology. If I continued using it, I'd need to increase its capacity. We need higher performance and more reliable storage. It's considered an expensive solution in Jordan, it would be better if the price could be reduced.

RZ
Real User
2021-01-11T18:58:27Z
Jan 11, 2021

I would like to see improvements made to the user interface.

EE
Real User
2020-10-27T16:08:13Z
Oct 27, 2020

Deduplication and compression is an area that needs development. This is currently not on the device. In the next release, I would like the deduplication and compression included, as well as the flash technology. It doesn't currently use it.

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