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EMC VNX (Discontinued)

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25 Reviews and Ratings

What is EMC VNX (Discontinued)?

The former EMC VNX series is EOL. The vendor invites users to instead try Dell EMC's Unity series family of midrange storage appliances.

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EMC VNX: Great while it lasted

Incentivized
Sam MajamView profile
Systems Administrator in Information Technology at TBC Corporation (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Stable platform.
  • Good support.

Cons

  • It occupies a large floor space in the data center.
  • Unisphere management interface uses Java, which is problematic to run.

Return on Investment

  • Due to its stability, it is very rare to have downtime—meaning business operations are not interrupted from an infrastructure level.
  • Support and maintenance can be expensive.

Alternatives Considered

Dell EMC Unity and EMC Symmetrix VMAX

Other Software Used

VMware Horizon (formerly VMware View), VMware ESXi, Cisco UCS B-Series

A reliable storage system for medium to large organizations

Incentivized
Timothy SawahView profile
Lead Systems Engineer in Information Technology at The George Washington University (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • 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

Return on Investment

  • With 2 boxes located in different datacenters, configured as active-active, the reliability of our services increased.
  • The 400+ vmware servers hosted on VNX had faster response time
  • Our admins had less to non downtime on the storage level
  • The negative impact was mainly draining the budget

Alternatives Considered

NetApp All Flash FAS, HP StorageWorks MSA and Dell EMC Unity

Other Software Used

SolarWinds IPAM, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, Dell EMC Unity

My take on EMC VNX

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Ryan AndrusView profile
Network Services Manager in Information Technology at Davis County Government (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • I think it has provided improved reliability and performance [compared to] our previous solutions.
  • The lack of performance metrics has led us to need a 3rd party tool that integrates into our Vsphere environment to give us feed back on performance.

Alternatives Considered

Tegile and Nimble Storage

Other Software Used

OnBase by Hyland, vSphere, Windows Server