Dell PowerStore Reviews

I use the solution for storage, databases, and visualization. It serves as a storage option for our server.

It's easy, and the GUI is user-friendly. The recommendation was proper, so we adopted the solution. 

The performance is very good, which is important for storage. Performance is important for storage, with features like compression and deduplication. Performance is crucial, and the price compared to the risk isn't the worst. High availability is achieved, and the load is divided between two nodes.

Compression of data is good. It offers good resilience against ransomware. Our data is safe from attacks. I achieve a higher ability with this solution. There are features for resilience against ransomware and cyber attacks, including security. 

It's easy to manage. I use a lot of Dell solutions and find the GUI very user-friendly. 

The APEX IOPS are good. It gives a lot of good information.

We can consolidate data using PowerStore. We have a guaranteed compression of four to one. We also received extra space from the vendor.

We've been able to consolidate data by about 100% to 240%.

We've been able to increase operational efficiency. 

The data encryption is good and available in a standard license. There are snapshot and backup capabilities. 

PowerStore has helped us reduce our Capex by 20% to 40%. 

I don't see anything I need to change. I am happy with the years of use I've gotten. Nothing more is needed to meet our requirements. We have received the necessary functions, like consistent snapshots for the application. Currently, no function is missing for our needs. As long as they keep up with the quality, I would be happy.

I have used the solution for over five years.

I performed scalability adjustments this year. It was easy and simple.

Users can add capacity in single drive increments.

I'd rate scalability ten out of ten.

I am happy with customer service. I have not faced any problems.

I am still using familiar Dell products, such as PowerStore and Unity, as they are part of the same family. I'm also using PowerVault. 

We did not use a different solution previously. We've always used Dell.

The setup is easy. I implemented an instance. It is not hard. 

I need one person with some experience in storage to help with the setup. I may then possibly need more.

We currently have three devices. We are not clustering them.

There is some maintenance needed for fixes, et cetera.

We implemented the first time via a vendor. After that, it was easy to do by ourselves. 

Cost savings are evident, and we receive storage and resilience against cyber attacks. We see it as a good investment.

The cost is average.

Users can be enrolled in lifecycle extension with pro support. The pricing for that is too high for PowerStore.

The overall product rating is ten out of ten.

For customers who are looking for a unified solution where they want a mixture of block and file systems, Dell PowerStore would be the right fit. Customers can have an array based on flash and also on spinning disk, depending on what kind of workloads they want to run. For example, if they want to do video surveillance systems, we can propose the Dell PowerStore that has only spinning disk, which they can capitalize on capacity because of the video images and related content.

One of our customers is a bank that has Dell PowerStore. Initially, before implementing Dell PowerStore, their transactions were slow, and they received many complaints from their customers regarding data access speed and backup initiation times. 

After implementing Dell PowerStore storage, the performance became exceptional, and customers started to notice improvements in system access. The internal team was very satisfied with the storage performance, and customers are providing positive feedback about Dell PowerStore storage.

The storage for Dell PowerStore has been performing well overall. The only improvement that might be required, though not significantly, relates to the features that allow for support, specifically the call home features.

I have been working with Dell PowerStore for over five years, while also dealing with IBM, Lenovo, Dell, and NetApp systems.

The technical support from Dell PowerStore has been very good. I would rate them eight out of ten.

Positive

We are a partner for Dell, IBM, Lenovo, and Huawei. Dell PowerStore is a good storage solution that I can place in the top five. It has excellent features, and given the opportunity, I would position Dell PowerStore first in a customer environment.

Unless customers specify otherwise, I prefer to position Dell PowerStore over other storage solutions because of its simplicity in deployment, management, and support. It has been very easy to expand in terms of scaling up and scaling out. The process is seamless as you don't need to take the whole storage down to add additional storage space. It's simply a matter of bringing in expansion, connecting it, and then adding space into the existing storage.

Dell PowerStore is highly recommendable due to its anti-ransomware features, which many customers appreciate. When creating snapshots of data that can be immutable, it prevents unauthorized access to the content. These security features make Dell PowerStore a preferred choice for many customers.

On a scale of 1-10, this solution rates 8.5.

Dell PowerStore's main use cases include capacity management for storage and various other purposes. The product fits the business across all verticals, whether in finance, retail, or aviation, as Dell Technologies is present in every industry.

I have been able to consolidate data using Dell PowerStore for our clients, and there are many examples of this happening.

Regarding examples of how much data was consolidated or the data reduction rate, I cannot comment easily on that because those figures are not very generic and depend on the case type and the nature of the data involved.

What I appreciate about Dell PowerStore is its batch perspective, especially for downloading the SME, although I focus on the business side of it. That question would be better for my SMEs.

All of my customers use Dell to consolidate workloads, improve performance, enhance power efficiency, and achieve data reduction, which is what Dell is known for. I am personally focused on storage, computing, and backups, and in my previous experience, I have been working actively in that area.

Dell brings many solutions, particularly in hybrid solutions that go multi-cloud, and it is a good product to work on.

From a VFSI perspective, I do have experience with how Dell PowerStore has impacted the organization in terms of performance and operational efficiency, and it has been a good experience due to being very much scalable and highly available.

I would describe my experience with Dell PowerStore's data resiliency, availability, and cybersecurity features as good.

These features definitely meet my customers' business needs today, especially with the upcoming threats.

The only area of Dell PowerStore that I would see improved is the awareness in the market, as I feel that the Dell team can do better regarding the features and the way use cases and case studies are presented.

I think my customers find several features of Dell PowerStore impactful for their organization, but I do not know what plans you have for the agentic part of it, as I have not heard much about that. Most of the products emerging already have AI for better delivery and insights, but I am not very sure if Dell PowerStore is fully ready for that.

At this moment, I have not utilized Dell AIOps, also known as CloudIQ or Apex AIOps, in Dell PowerStore, and I have seen very limited penetration of that in customer places.

I have been working with Dell PowerStore since the launch date because we are not new to Dell Technologies. I have been seeing the product generation right from the EMC Clarion days.

I have not experienced any performance issues, crashes, or downtimes with Dell PowerStore, and everything has been fine so far. I appreciate Dell Technologies for their continuous support, which strengthens our partnership due to the better support structure in place.

I have not had any limitations or scalability issues with Dell as it is scalable by design, which is completely good.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the tech support and customer service teams as a nine due to their high customer care experience, despite some occasional transaction issues.

I work with other storages and competitors, including HP and IBM, as I have been an SI partner for all of them, and it is not exclusively with Dell.

In comparing Dell to competitors like HP, some features show Dell outperforming, while others go in HP's favor. However, newer competitors like Pure have become very competitive.

I appreciate Dell's commitment, but sometimes I feel Dell products can be costlier concerning the overall lifecycle management of the product.

I find it cost-effective, although it does depend on a case-by-case basis and may not hold true for every situation. In most of the cases, the answer is that it is cost-effective.

Given my experience with Dell products, my recommendation for others looking to implement is that the awareness aspect seems to be lacking lately, as I have not seen the same level of engagement compared to earlier times. I would rate this review an eight overall.

On-premises

Other

Dell PowerStore was attached to an SQL Database that needed to have high performance, and since the application was not very well written, the only solution was to put it on flash storage. In my company, we felt that Dell PowerStore stood out for us as a high-performance storage device in the market.

In terms of how the product has helped my organization or my company's customers' organizations, I would say that the product provides its users with the hardware they need to be able to scale and grow their applications. The product is helpful not just from the standpoint of being able to deal with expanding an array's needs but also having the power necessary for the workload.

The most valuable feature revolves around expandability, especially since our company had to grow one of the appliances once. My company found the tool to be really easy to use, expand, and manage.

My organization uses Dell CloudIQ to manage and analyze Dell storage. My company has not faced any issues with CloudIQ since we mostly use it for monitoring and reporting, and it never came back to us with anything, so everything is always green there. CloudIQ has not given our company anything yet since we may not have done anything wrong to date. As per one of the recent announcements, CloudIQ has been renamed Dell APEX AIOps. Going forward, we need to remember that CloudIQ has been branded as Dell APEX AIOps.

I don't look or assess Dell PowerStore's overall energy consumption closely since it is not in a data center where one can have features to monitor power. I would assume that the product would be efficient when it comes to the overall energy consumption area, and I understand that there will be some additional power savings with the newer versions of the product and the latest hardware. There hasn't been anything associated with the product that has been an issue for our company.

In terms of the ESG values of the product, I think Dell PowerStore has been doing a good job. Dell's team has been doing its best when it comes to the area of ESG values since they talk a lot about being green and recycling while also emphasizing how they are able to take in old products and dispose of them properly, making me believe that Dell works towards a good initiative.

The challenges my company is trying to address with the use of the solution, especially in areas like workload or data consolidation, I would say that the workloads that my company is running are all VMs, so we get into a ton of consolidation in that regard. The challenge my company is trying to address with the use of the solution revolves around the area of performance. The tool has not only met and addressed our company's challenges concerning the performance area but also exceeded them.

My company integrates Dell PowerStore with VMware.

The integration process of Dell PowerStore with VMware is not as easy as how it is when it comes to Dell Unity XT, especially in terms of getting the integrations turned on. Once the integration capabilities are turned on in Dell PowerStore, the tool works very well.

Though Dell PowerStore is generally easy to manage, it is not as easy as how one can manage Dell Unity XT. There are some management issues in Dell PowerStore. I have managed several pieces of Dell PowerStore's hardware area, and I could feel that it was almost like a step back in certain areas when it came to the management interface. I haven't looked at Dell PowerStoreOS 4.0, so I can't speak about it currently.

From a feature-oriented point of view, I don't want to see anything additional in the product since it is kind of a purpose-built appliance from what I understand. The product does everything I need it to do for me.

I have been using Dell PowerStore for a year.

The product's stability has been fantastic and rock solid.

The product's scalability features have been great. My company is happy with the product.

The solution's technical support has been fantastic, especially with the CloudIQ integration. Our company has had a couple of instances where Dell's support has actually reached out to us and told us about how there is an update in the queue and how we can download it and use the update as per our convenience.

I have not used any other solutions in the past.

The product's initial setup phase was easy. The product has an easy setup phase, especially if you have experience with Dell EMC storage products. Dell PowerStore's setup process may not seem as easy as the setup phase of the tools covered under Dell EMC storage products.

Only one of the two Dell PowerStore isn't production, but the issue that my company used to face with the previous product we used was associated with the fact that its application would die every day at two o'clock in the afternoon, after which there is a need to reboot the server in order to get the product to come back up. I believe the aforementioned problem was caused by a report running at the wrong time and taxing out the database server heavily. With Dell PowerStore, even if the report runs and Taxes out the database server heavily, the tool doesn't suffer from a performance hit. With the earlier products, users had to deal with 15 to 30 minutes of downtime in the afternoons, but now that has been eliminated with the use of Dell PowerStore. I have experienced an ROI using the product, but the number to which it equates is something that I can't specify.

When it came to the pricing part, my company looked at Dell EMC Unity All Flash and Dell PowerStore. Dell PowerStore is more expensive than Dell EMC Unity All Flash. Dell PowerStore's performance metrics were way higher than what Dell EMC Unity All Flash offered. My company considered Dell PowerStore to be the best solution despite its high cost.

I have not evaluated any other products against Dell PowerStore.

The product has not really helped reduce organizational footprint and data consolidation. The data is all there, and it just keeps growing, so I don't know if there has been any data consolidation possible with Dell PowerStore.

Though there are a few areas that Dell cannot control, when you look at an all-flash storage device, one can figure out that there is some cost involved in it. Other than the costs associated with Dell PowerStore, I feel it is a fantastic product.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We use Dell PowerStore for our local operations and as a backup service that we provide. We use it for some VMware, but it's primarily for backups. 

Dell PowerStore has provided us with a lot of disk space that is easy to handle. The solution has also helped reduce our organizational footprint by about 50 percent. We have six units. That's less than what used to be on the rack. 

The platform's reliability and built-in replication between disk systems have made our customers happy. It has worked consistently well over the years.

The previous version of Dell PowerStore we used was easier to use compared to the current one. They have made it more cumbersome to handle, although it still works. It has become more complicated to manage.

We have been using Dell PowerStore for the last five years.

Dell PowerStore is stable. We haven't had any issues with it.

Scalability with Dell PowerStore is probably good, but we haven't had the opportunity to increase disk space as we have not needed it beyond our initial purchase.

I rate Dell support nine out of 10. We have not needed much support from Dell since the solution has been working well. 

Positive

We transitioned from a system called EcoLogic, which was another Dell solution. We started with EcoLogic about 20 years ago and switched to Dell PowerStore about six years ago because EcoLogic was no longer available. We needed new disks because our old ones were wearing out. PowerEdge was priced well.

The pricing structure and licensing model of Dell PowerStore are very good and I like it. We chose it because it was reasonably priced and met our requirements.

We considered other disk systems, but they were too expensive.

I rate Dell PowerEdge Servers nine out of 10. They do their job and cause us no problems. 

I am dealing with Dell PowerStore, PowerScale, and PowerEdge.

Dell PowerStore is popular in my region and is already a known product and solution. When it comes to recommending it for smaller or bigger companies, it depends on the workload. Generally, it can be used for both smaller and larger organizations.

In terms of improvement for Dell PowerStore, I think it would be good to integrate it with IBM workloads.

Regarding Dell AIOps or CloudIQ, there is no problem with that, but it still needs to be more granular.

When asked how I would rate their technical support from one to ten, I say nine. Nine out of ten means there is still some room for improvement when it comes to response time and overall competence. There is always room for improvement, but for our cases with our customers, we are very satisfied with the technical support of Dell.

Regarding their pricing, I find it reasonable and competitive.

If I were to rate Dell PowerStore from one to ten overall as a product, I would give it a seven. As for additional features that I think they need in the future to make it better, I do not have any suggestions.

It is our primary storage. We have two appliances.

It's very easy to use. It's very easy to manage. We did not find any difficulties in terms of management. Its benefits were visible from the start.

It's good storage. The hardware is decent. It's doing its job.

It's easy to use and manage. It's compatible with our infrastructure. We don't have an issue in terms of compatibility, usage, and support.

We find NAS to be the most impactful feature of Dell PowerStore. The compression and deduplication technology is very important and essential, and this was one of the reasons that we decided to go with Dell PowerStore. 

In future updates, I would like to see more AI functionality plus a good integration with OneDrive.

We have been using Dell PowerMax in our organization for approximately seven years. Dell PowerStore has been in use for approximately two to three years.

It is stable. We have no issues with it.

I would evaluate Dell Technologies' service and technical support as very good and very responsive.

Positive

We have been using Dell PowerMax. We had a requirement for additional storage and decided not to expand Dell PowerMax because of the pricing. We decided to have new storage with Dell PowerStore.

It was very easy to deploy, and there was no challenge. It took two to three days to deploy.

Three people took part in the deployment process.

Dell PowerStore has helped to reduce our organization's capital expenditures.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

On-premises

We have used Dell PowerStore for service and storage needs, emphasizing products like VxRail, PowerStore, and our series rack mount servers.

Dell PowerStore offers good value for money and some feature scalability that is better than other products.

Dell PowerStore has good value for money and some scalability features that are better than other products.

Dell PowerStore doesn't really have a lot of advantages over other products. It has no special features technically. Other products have better management and analytics features. HP emphasizes much better analytical features.

I have used Dell PowerStore for a couple of years, probably about five years.

Dell PowerStore is reasonably priced and scales reasonably well. You don't really need to do much maintenance work on it, and it's not different from any other array.

Dell PowerStore's scalability features are better than those of other products. However, there are other products that are better overall.

HP is superior in analytics, while Dell is superior in scalability. It depends on which model of array you're talking about.

Dell PowerStore is pretty set and forget. It takes a while to install, but it's not overly complex.

Dell PowerStore offers good value for money.

Dell PowerStore is reasonably good value for money. There's nothing special about it technically compared to other products.

HP emphasizes much better analytical features compared to Dell.

I'd rate the solution five out of ten.

On-premises

I can't think of anything to improve Dell PowerStore because when it comes to storage, I don't want to have to troubleshoot it or deal with it unless I'm deploying a new volume or deploying something. That's one of the reasons why I love PowerProtect - if I didn't save the password in a password manager, I would forget what the admin login is, because I never have to log into it and troubleshoot it at all. It just works. It is very resilient, and that's my favorite thing about it. 

I evaluate storage reliability performance by noting that I'm the one who would have to troubleshoot or fix something, and with Dell PowerStore, I never have to log into it, which is awesome. 

I've never had to contact support, which is one of the reasons why I love it. I don't want to constantly have issues with something, so I can dedicate my time to something else that's not just fixing what we have.

One improvement I would suggest relates to the service that pings Dell when there's an issue. I would say it needs to be more transparent. 

Dell has always been good to us, even though we're not a massive company. While we are a global company, in terms of employees, we're not that huge. Dell has always been good to us, and we never felt they looked down on us because we're under a thousand employees.

Positive

That's one of the big reasons why we're here, so we can find how we can start utilizing AI for our business, that's not just asking ChatGPT to make a report for us or something. Dell PowerStore is my baby.

We deploy a platform that is a virtualization platform, and we provide it to our customers. Dell PowerStore is the fundamental storage backbone underneath our platform. We use it to store their operating system information, their data, and all their workloads. We have been using Dell PowerStore for years.

We integrate directly with Dell PowerStore. Our product sits as the operating system that sits on top, and then we can deploy virtualization above that. Our tool directly integrates with Dell PowerStore. As our customers use our products to spin up containers or VMs, they can have all of their storage on Dell PowerStore directly.

Our customers who want to do virtualization want Dell storage. The fact that we have this partnership with Dell and our tools integrate helps us sell our products. We can say we work on Dell, we work on Dell PowerStore, PowerFlex, PowerEdge, and we can certify that we're running on these platforms. This helps get us sales.

It just works with Dell PowerStore. The simplicity is the great thing. We've worked with Dell to make sure that our products integrate. We ran a demo over in our booth, and you can just configure our virtualization layer to talk to Dell PowerStore, and then everything just works. You can go into a very easy configuration, and then you go into our tool and you say you need a new storage volume, you need block storage, you need file storage, and it talks to Dell PowerStore. It does it, and then it all just works.

I do not have any suggestions for how Dell PowerStore can be improved. I am very happy with it. It works very well with our tools and it is all super easy.

I have been in the tech industry for 27 years.

It is a hard question because we're a platform that sells our product to integrate with Dell PowerStore, whereas that one is more of a question about whether we are using it internally to drive ROI on our own tools. I don't know the answer to that question.

I am not involved in pricing or setup for Dell PowerStore.

I want to say we validate our solutions against all of Dell's products. We want to support all of them. We are not using one in particular, but we actually test our solution against as many models as we can, so that when we go sell our technology, our Canonical technology, to our customers, they know that they can run it on Dell PowerStore.

I have not used Dell AIOps in Dell PowerStore. I don't know if we are enrolled in a Lifecycle Extension for the Anytime Upgrade program. I don't know how much we've been able to consolidate data using Dell PowerStore, and I don't know what our data reduction rate is. Dell's been a long-time partner for us. I would rate this review a 9.