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

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Augmented Reality Development

Chatbot

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Data Analytics  and BI Services

Document Management

Intellectual Property (IP) Management

Meeting Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Blockchain Payments

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Monitoring

Employee Referral

HR Management

Payroll

Stock Option Plan Administration

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

3D Printing

AI Governance

Change Management

Cloud Migration

Cloud Storage

Continuous Delivery

Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

DevSecOps

Fraud Detection

IT Alert Management

IT Professional Services

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

Server Virtualization

Software-Defined WAN

System Monitoring

Test Management

Time Series Databases

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Call Tracking

Channel Management

Content Management

Email Marketing

Headless CMS

Marketing Attribution

Marketing Automation

Referral Marketing

Social Media Advertising

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Translation

Web Analytics

Wholesale Marketplace

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Proposal

Sales Enablement

Sales Training

Sales

Data-Centric Audit Protection (DCAP)

Operational Technology (OT) Security

Security

Aviation

Camp Management

Construction Takeoff and Estimating

Financial Services CRM

Hospital Management

Medical Office EMR & EHR

Population Health Management

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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.

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Likelihood to Recommend

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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 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

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

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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!

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

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

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!

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Dell PowerFlex
Formerly VxFlex or VxRack

Overview

What is Dell PowerFlex?