Dell EqualLogic PS Series vs. Dell PowerMax NVMe

Dell EqualLogic is well suited in a virtual environment where the ability to quickly create new volumes is important. Also, being able to back-up and restore data pools is a key factor, as well as automating your storage environment. Smaller businesses would be less suited in this scenario and would be better off with a less expensive NAS solution.

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PowerMax is suited for a mid-tier to enterprise company. It can easily take on and manage what it may take with various storage arrays. This can work in any vertical, healthcare, manufacturing, financial, insurance, etc. It can easily manage massive workloads and deliver very high-end performance. Is not feasible for small companies, this can and would be very expensive to maintain and operate, and it truly doesn't make sense when a much smaller array can be used.

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• Provides a hybrid mixture of SAS and SSD disks
• Different raid levels allowed across shelves
• Daisy chain SAN controllers

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• Fastest storage array in the world.
• this system provide the performance density up to 7.5 million IOPS5 per rack
• Its support maximum system

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• Be nice to use a hybrid of drives. Solid state and hard disk drives.
• Configuration was easy, but the maintaining of it can be a little difficult. We are a small shop. The system runs great, but when it comes to increasing storage space, etc., it can be difficult because we aren't in it daily. Some options are buried pretty well, which makes it tough to find.

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• Can be complex if someone is not versed on the product.
• Expensive.
• High cost of maintenance.

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Having used HP StorageWorks, I have found that the Dell EqualLogic works more smoothly in a VMware environment. There are plugins that work in vSphere that allow you to create volumes and provision new virtual servers with relative ease. The software and interface that the EqualLogic runs on is more straightforward as well.

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• Easy deployment with assistance from Dell meant a quick turn around time
• Dell after support very good. Disk failures are dealt with quickly
• Management of the units and ease

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• Cost
• Opex vs Capex
• Maintenance Costs.
• Learning curve on software to maintain the array.

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