My take on EMC VNX
September 27, 2017
My take on EMC VNX
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with EMC VNX
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.
- 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.
- Tegile and Nimble Storage
VNX is a good offering when you are wanting a lot of storage, and reliability. I think there are other offerings that can provide better performance, and come with better UI and tools to monitor your environment.