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Dell VMAX

Score9.7 out of 10

17 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Dell VMAX?

Dell VMAX All Flash is the latest iteration in the former Symmetrix series of enterprise flash array storage, available in the Dell VMAX 250F edition, or the Dell EMC VMAX 950F edition.

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Key Features

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Top Performing Features

  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades

    Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required

    Category average: 8.9

  • Simplicity

    Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training

    Category average: 9.2

  • Power Savings

    Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Flash Array Performance

    Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives

    Category average: 8.8

  • Data Compression

    Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements

    Category average: 7.6

  • Flash Array Integration

    Integration with hypervisors and applications

    Category average: 9.2

Reviews

What users are saying about Dell VMAX.
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Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage Review

Incentivized
Bhawani Shankar Satapathy
AIX Administrator in Information Technology at DXC Technology Pvt Ltd (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage is very powerful storage that we used in our cloud and production environments for highly transaction applications and databases. This storage provides lots of advanced features to protect the data.

Pros

  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage enable the direct backup of data.
  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage is always up and running during the updates because it creates a redundant connection from controllers.
  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage increase the system stability which helps to increase the production productivity.

Cons

  • To use and operate the Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage, users must have a good experience, and GUI should more easy to use in all its functions.

Most Important Features

  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the hybrid cloud solution, we are using this storage in our cloud setup and the performance is much better.
  • High data Processing speed.
  • Rich Storage capacity which is good for big project setup.

Return on Investment

  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides an excellent data response time and which is really good for critical production environments to increase business productivity.
  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provide the maximum system uptime.
  • Dell EMC VMAX Storage provides an easy way to do the disk provision and map to the servers.
  • High performance.

Alternatives Considered

IBM FlashSystem

VMAX All Flash - architected for mission-critical bussiness

Incentivized
Lukas MizeraView profile
Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist - Storage Management in Information Technology at Kyndryl (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

On my account we have used it only in one region for specific site.There was a specific contract between Dell and the client. Decision was made with this type due to VMAX NDM feature as many data had to be migrated. It works well for UNIX VMs under vSphere environment.

Pros

  • provisioning, compression, snapshot, NDM
  • Point in Time Protection (SnapVX)
  • Transparent Recovery

Cons

  • difficult configuration - expiration needed
  • HW support must be gathered by the client

Most Important Features

  • NDM
  • Data Domain data protection
  • Optimal storage efficiency
  • Very good response time

Return on Investment

  • Mission-critical availability

Alternatives Considered

IBM FlashSystem A9000, IBM FlashSystem 9200, IBM FlashSystem 5100, IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems), IBM System Storage DS8900F (formerly DS8000), IBM SAN48B-5, IBM DS8880F and Pure Storage FlashArray

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage Hybrid cloud solution

Incentivized
Utkarsh Khandelwal
System Administrator in Information Technology at Jaquar & Company Pvt Ltd (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage is very powerful storage. We use this storage in our cloud and AIX servers environments to maintain the data IO process speed. This storage response time is excellent, and Performance is much better.

Pros

  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage alloww to migrate the data from other storage easily.
  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the hybrid cloud solution, we are using this storage in our cloud setup, and we have achieved our targets.
  • This storage provides lots of good functions and features that help to improve the production business like Data Security, High uptime, Performance, dual controller, and data compression.

Cons

  • We did not face any major challenges or issues with this powerful storage. Vendor support is good.

Most Important Features

  • We are using this storage in our hybrid cloud setup.
  • We use most of the features to maintain our project data like data migration, data backup and restore, data compression, security, etc.

Return on Investment

  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the hybrid cloud solution
  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the great storage capacity with data security
  • Data Migration from other storage, data compression, stability

Alternatives Considered

IBM FlashSystem

Great Array Storage for Critical Business

Incentivized
Amit Gupta
AIX Administrator in Information Technology at DXC Technology Pvt Ltd (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Great and very powerful system and easy to use all its functions. Excellent Storage capacity to store any business data. Dell EMC VMAX All Flash storage most secure solution that allows effective access for any need and quickly. We are using this storage for both system Unix and VMware. Performance is excellent.

Pros

  • Data Compression, Snapshot
  • Disk Provision
  • Reports
  • Dual Controller with high performance

Cons

  • We faced lots of challenges with vendor support during major issue
  • Accessibility of multiple data

Most Important Features

  • Storage capacity
  • Easy to migrate the data from other storage
  • Stability
  • Data Security

Return on Investment

  • Easy to access the multiple data from different type of systems
  • Data transfer is easy
  • Easily we can migrate the data from other storage
  • Mission critical projects

Alternatives Considered

IBM FlashSystem and Dell EMC Unity

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage Increase the business productivity

Incentivized
Kaushal Rawat
AIX Adminsitrator in Information Technology at DXC Technology Pvt Ltd (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage is being used for VMware and Unix environments in my projects. This is very powerful storage and experience is required to operate it in daily operation.

Pros

  • Data Migration
  • Snapshot, compression
  • Hybrid cloud solution

Cons

  • User Must be fully experience to operate this storage
  • Configuration are bit difficult

Most Important Features

  • Rich storage capacity
  • Data Protection and data migration
  • Stability
  • High data processing speed

Return on Investment

  • Storage stability
  • Performance
  • Storage capacity
  • Data Transfer is quick

Alternatives Considered

IBM FlashSystem