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EMC VNX (Discontinued) Reviews

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Sam Majam profile photo
March 02, 2019

EMC VNX: Great while it lasted

Sam Majam
Score 2 out of 10
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EMC VNX is one of the primary storage arrays that is used across the whole organization. It provides the storage platform that all corporate servers are running on.
  • Stable platform.
  • Good support.
  • It occupies a large floor space in the data center.
  • Unisphere management interface uses Java, which is problematic to run.
With the VNX being EOL and the emergence of EMC Unity, I would suggest using EMC Unity instead.
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Timothy Sawah profile photo
November 02, 2018

A reliable storage system for medium to large organizations

Timothy Sawah
Score 7 out of 10
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The EMC VNX is the main storage system used by the whole organization but managed exclusively by the IT department. It mainly hosts the VMware servers and Unix Servers. The Unity feature allowed us to configure CIFS NAS storage for file sharing too. The EMC VNX has an auto-tiering feature which solved the delay problem we had in older storage systems. It has the ability to scale up and out.
  • Auto- tiering, for faster access on blocks used most frequently
  • Has both NAS and SAN ( unified system)
  • Scale up ability
  • Optimal for VMware
  • Integrates with vCenter
  • Easy monitoring and useful dashboards
  • Relatively easy configure and management interface with safe delete
  • Much slower compared to all-flash systems
  • Navigation in the web interface is not smooth
  • CIFS NAS is not easy to integrate with active directory
  • EMC VNX is suited for VMware environment as it integrates with vCenter.
  • Integrates well with SolarWinds storage monitoring software.
  • It is well suited for enterprise-level organizations with 100+ servers.
  • It is not suited for small businesses as it requires specialized administrators and has relatively high license cost.
  • It is not suited for businesses that host most of their servers on the cloud.
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Ryan Andrus profile photo
September 27, 2017

My take on EMC VNX

Ryan Andrus
Score 7 out of 10
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Our VNX is our primary SAN storage. It has been a very reliable and solid storage solution.
  • VNX has had very solid uptime. Over the course of the last 5 years, we have had very little if any downtime.
  • We have also used it for our home directories, and with the data dedupe on the file side it has saved us a lot of space.
  • Adding additional drive space has also been really easy.
  • The UI is very clunky and uses Java, which I am not a big fan of.
  • It is difficult to see performance metrics or utilization. Tegile or Nimble provide a superior window into your performance and IOPS on LUNs and VMs.
If you are looking for a solid storage array that needs to give you continuous uptime, then VNX is a great solution.
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EMC VNX (Discontinued) Scorecard Summary

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About EMC VNX (Discontinued)

The former EMC VNX series is EOL. The vendor invites users to instead investigate Dell EMC's Unity series family of midrange storage appliances.
Categories:  Modular Storage Area Network (SAN),  Enterprise Flash Array Storage

EMC VNX (Discontinued) Integrations

Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)

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