Name: Dell PowerFlex
Rating: 9 (3 reviews)
Author: Dell Technologies

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Bug  Tracking

Help Authoring

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Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

IP PBX

Manufacturing Execution

Enterprise

Accounting

Expense Management

Trust Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Referral

HR Management

Payroll

Succession Planning

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Cloud Storage

Code Review

Data Catalog

Data Fabric

Data Recovery Service

Data Virtualization

Fraud Detection

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Interoperability

Network Performance Monitoring

Observability

Relational Databases

Server Management

Software-Defined WAN

Storage Area Network

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

Advertising Agency

All-in-One Marketing

Click Fraud

Contact Management

Content Management

Customer Experience Management

Digital Asset Management

Direct Mail Automation

Email Marketing

Local Marketing

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Virtual Event

Web Analytics

Website Builder

Marketing

Project Management

Wireframing

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales Coaching

Sales Intelligence

Sales

GDPR Compliance

Security

ID Card

Insurance Policy Administration Systems

Insurance Underwriting and Rating

Last Mile Delivery

Library Management

Pharmacy

Plagiarism Checker

Smart Cities

Telemedicine

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The Dell VxRail is a VMWare-based hyper-converged infrastructure appliance.

Dell VxRail

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Dell Technologies

Nutanix in San Jose, California offers their software-defined Enterprise Cloud as a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. The Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution combines the Nutanix Acropolis virtualization solution, Nutanix AHV hypervisor (though Acropolis works with other hypervisors), Prism cluster manager, Nutanix Calm and Nutanix Flow server management, and is available on the Nutanix NX series of server hardware appliances, as well as third-party OEM appliances.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Nutanix NX Series

Nutanix

Dell PowerMax NVME is presented as a end-to-end NVMe, storage class memory (SCM) for persistent storage, real-time machine learning and up to 350GB per second to  power critical workloads.

Dell PowerMax NVMe

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Flash Array Performance

Flash Array Integration

Data Compression

Non-Intrusive Upgrades

Simplicity

Power Savings

Oracle Exadata is an enterprise database platform that runs Oracle Database workloads of any scale and criticality with high performance, availability, and security. Exadata’s scale-out design employs optimizations that let transaction processing, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads run faster. Consolidating diverse Oracle Database workloads on Exadata platforms in enterprise data centers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and multicloud environments helps organizations increase operational efficiency.

Quarter Rack

Database Server

Oracle Exadata

Data Warehouse

Oracle

Dell Technologies presents Dell PowerScale (replacing EMC Isilon) as a scale-out NAS solution and server technology that provides the flexibility of a software-defined architecture with accelerated hardware innovations to harness the value of data.

Isilon Systems was acquired by EMC in 2010; some EMC Isilon NAS appliances are still available and supported under the PowerScale brand.

Dell PowerScale

Scale-Out Storage

Dell PowerScale EMC Isilon emc celerra emc isilon

VMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides a simple path to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi cloud. VMware vSAN is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.

VMware vSAN

VMware by Broadcom

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Red Hat Ceph Storage is a software defined storage option.

Red Hat Ceph Storage

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Red Hat

Microsoft offers hyperconverged infrastructure solutions via Azure Stack HCI. Azure Stack HCI provides a variety of preferred hardware solutions for building a hybrid cloud infrastructure, allowing the user to run virtual machines on hyperconverged systems and use Windows Admin Center to connect to Azure for cloud services.

Developer

Standard

Professional Direct

Azure Stack HCI

Microsoft

Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.

Pure Storage FlashArray

Pure Storage

Top Rated 2023

Cisco HyperFlex Systems is a hyper-converged infrastructure product, based on technology acquired with SpringPath (acquired September 2017).

Cisco HyperFlex

Cisco

Dell PowerFlex (formerly VxFlex) software-defined storage solutions aim to enable transformational agility for organizations looking to modernize their datacenter operations. The vendor states PowerFlex enables extreme flexibility, massive scalability, and enterprise-class performance and resiliency while simplifying infrastructure management and operations.

Dell PowerFlex

A hyper-converged infrastructure is a software-defined app-centric storage infrastructure coupled with a compact efficient scale-out hardware infrastructure, prioritizing simplicity and lowered maintenance cost with high performance virtualization over a hardware-focused "tweakable" infrastructure with many separable components.

Likelihood to Recommend

Since 1984, Dell has played a critical role in enabling more affordable and accessible technology around the world. As an end-to-end computing solutions company, Dell continues to transform computing and provide high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.

We serve customers ranging from the world's largest businesses and public-sector organizations, to small and medium businesses, and individual consumers. We are deeply committed to serving our community, and the company has also received numerous accolades ranging from employer of choice to energy conservation awards.

At Dell, we promote an environment that is rooted in the entrepreneurial spirit in which the company was founded. This means fostering an open approach to technology innovation that delivers effective solutions for all customer challenges. We believe technology is essential for human success and that it should be accessible to everyone.

Reviews

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Software upgrades

Hit or miss

Costs are high

One type

Down time

Pane of glass

Get expensive

Smooth and easy

Easy to use

Home

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems

Dell Avamar

Cisco Aironet 1800 Series Access Points (discontinued)

Once upon a time we had a SAN from almost every vendor in the space. Each time a salesman would come, our company decided we should try all the newness their product offered. Well as you would expect, that causes a lot of confusion for everyone involved, especially IT staff supporting it! The Dell EMC PowerFlex was our solution to getting all that mess under control!

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Gets all your (SAN) ducks in a row, and makes it easy with a single pane of glass
The usual good dell support if you're paying for the right support level
It can get expensive with options added but base price is pretty competitive

Things done well

Loooooong firmware and software upgrades
Those long upgrades make your hands sweat when they feel like they've stalled out
Support can be hit or miss as far as knowledge of the product

Things done poorly

Easy recommendation to anyone looking for a system like this. Mostly if you're looking at the top tier brands like Dell then you've got the budget, so I would just recommending paying for the top tier support as you will be happy with them. Also while the marketing does promise alot, you will find many of those things locked behind paywalls.

Money saved in having a bunch of other competing storage units
All kinds of time saved for our admins that have to deal with storage
The units look good and give you that futurey data center vibe!

Return on Investment

Dell EMC Avamar, Dell EMC VxRail, Cisco Aironet 1800 Series Access Points

Other Software Used

Dell EMC PowerFlex (formerly VxFlex or VxRack) 2021-03-05 15:48:44

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

Aruba Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

Dell EMC Powerflex [(formerly VxFlex or VxRAck)] has been rolled out throughout the business as a means of dealing with disparate SAN units with differing abilities and technologies. We have switched over to PowerFlex as a way to have a smart, software defined storage unit that gives us so many options in how we carve out storage in our data center. Previously we had a hard time doing these functions with so many [different] types of storage.

Dell hardware is built solid and works well
The interface is smooth and easy to use, also updates are easy
Much flexibility due to being a Software defined SAN

Costs are high, especially when having to replace multiple old SAN's with the one type
There is alot of down time when you have to push updates out to the units
Not sure we still have the full hang of all the functions as there's some pretty deep functions that are not explained well

Definitely would recommend this unit or this family of units into most peoples organizations. Especially if you're starting fresh with a whole dedicated SAN and dont have to move a ton of data over to these (though that is possible, it is very messy). If you're moving from existing storage, then you will have to be prepared for some sore spots!

Budget restraints caused us to have to wait a few years to do this project
Licensing is complex and confusing, and you may need help from support
Professional services are recommended as the roll out can be tough

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers, Dell EMC VxRail, Aruba Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

Dell EMC PowerFlex (formerly VxFlex or VxRack) 2021-03-05 15:28:41

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Dell PowerFlex
Formerly VxFlex or VxRack

Overview

What is Dell PowerFlex?

Gorgeous outside and inside! Would buy again!

Really easy to use and well built software defined storage system

Product Details