Dell PowerStore Reviews

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.

My use case for Dell PowerStore is to have a faster storage platform.

The most valuable feature about Dell PowerStore is speed and reliability. Speed and reliability are valuable because we reach a better response time in the applications. 

We use the storage principally for the database, and their response of the database was better after that. Dell PowerStore helps my organization overall by providing a better experience for the clients from the front end.

I would improve the product to make it better. I had specific troubles with vulnerabilities in Dell PowerStore. There are many vulnerabilities that we cannot mitigate related to the administration interface. It is hard to install certificates from another source.

I have been using Dell PowerStore for five years.

I have found that Dell PowerStore scales with my organization.

I have not used customer service or support.

Positive

I did use another solution before Dell PowerStore; we were using EMC before, and EMC was a part of Dell. The switch was for obsolescence; we were really happy with EMC, and this is the next generation of the same platform.

I was not part of the group that deployed Dell PowerStore. We worked with another team for the deployment.

I did evaluate other companies before. Companies such as IBM and ThreePAR for HP were among those I evaluated.

I ended up choosing Dell PowerStore for many reasons; the principal reason is due to the fact that I had experience with it before. I had a nice provider with a close relation, and this product complied with our requirements.

The advice I would give to somebody who's looking at purchasing Dell PowerStore is that it was easy to deploy; the migration was easy, too, and I always had good customer service and replacement parts. It works fine and is pretty simple.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the product a nine.

I have implemented Dell PowerStore primarily for use cases involving straight-up service in virtualization, which includes fewer VDIs and more generic services.

The solution's most valuable feature is that the full NVMe offers great latency, which is the most effective way to give our customers the benefits of all-flash storage, especially since they won't really notice the bandwidth more than the latency.

The challenges my company was trying to address with the implementation of Dell PowerStore revolve around floor space saving. In Germany, one mostly has to deal with a conservative customer base. If there is a storage that is seven years old and now if one wants to change it, then there are these big machines, with which one can get a lot of terabytes out of it, and that is definitely a big point. When it comes to the area of data reduction, Germany is very conservative, and it may not be possible to reach 4:1 data reduction, but it is still good as the tool's usability is very simple compared to other systems.

Dell PowerStore's ability in the area of overall energy consumption is very good compared to the other systems, which have spinning disks. All-flash storage solutions are a lot more effective, but it is a big concern as energy prices are high. In terms of whether my company could reduce the power consumption with Dell PowerStore, I would say that my company had a use case with a customer around three weeks ago where their old Dell EMC VNX Storage System used to draw about 2500 watts compared to Dell PowerStore which drew about 800 watts, which is a really a big saving looking at the twenty-four hours and seven days of usage of the system.

My organization uses Dell CloudIQ to manage and analyze Dell storage around 50 percent of the time. It makes a lot more sense when one has a lot more Dell hardware because it provides one with a single pane of glass management and an overview of the systems.

After assessing Dell PowerStore's Cyber-resilient data approach to security, I would say that its secure and immutable snapshots are a big feature in Europe. The tool was lacking for quite a time in the area of cyber-resilient data approach to security, but now it has become very good. I think Dell PowerStore is a state-of-the-art system.

I have been able to reduce our organizational footprint and data consolidation using Dell PowerStore, considering that the tool has helped with data reduction by around a 2.5:1 ratio. If I compare the footprint of Dell PowerStore with our company's previously used solution, I would say that the products used in the past did not help with any kind of reduction of data. As a company that has partnerships with different vendors, we have Pure Storage in our portfolio. Pure Storage is better than Dell PowerStore, specifically in the case of data reduction. The algorithm behind Pure Storage performs a bit better, but looking at the price difference, Dell PowerStore is available at a better deal.

The tool is deployed mostly on an on-premises model. The deployment is split into an 80 percent and 20 percent model. Around three to seventeen customers use the tool with VMware, while a few customers use OpenStack.

After upgrades, there were a few bugs in the product, and it can be considered as an area of concern where improvements are required.

I have been using Dell PowerStore since 2021. I was still a customer back in 2021 who bought a Dell PowerStore and then switched to the partner side at the beginning of 2022. Since 2022, I have dealt with 30 to 35 product implementations.

There were a few bugs in the product after the upgrades. My company had to face a few bugs in the latest upgrades of the tool owing to which we had to reboot the solution, and it is a big no-no for us considering that the product is a part of the virtualization stack, but if you are not really counting that and stay at the target code, which the tool recommends actually, then it is good.

In my company, we have a few appliances which we scaled out. The problem is mostly that single drive additions are really expensive. For most customers, it is actually more efficient to buy a whole Dell PowerStore, which is kind of hard to explain to most customers.

My company mostly contacts Dell's support team for mission critical services. Dell's support team's response has always been completely positive. The quick response from the tool's dedicated German support team for storage ensures that our company gets new leads and connects you to the right set of people from Dell. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

Positive

Considering the other solutions my company has used, I would say that Dell PowerStore, with all its features from previous releases, offers good functionalities. The big pro associated with Dell PowerStore stems from its price point since one gets a lot more compared to other products in the market.

The product's initial deployment phase has been straightforward. You can't get anything wrong with the deployment process associated with the product. I had two or three systems on which the validation was successful, but the actual deployment failed. It is not a big problem since you can just re-initialize it and start over.

Though I don't get real hard data about the savings part attached to the product, customer feedback has been extremely positive. There are no issues with the product's performance since Dell PowerStore is an NVMe product.

I rate the tool an eight and a half out of ten.

Dell PowerStore is designed for core business processes such as ERP, redundancy, and related operations. Dell PowerStore is a powerful platform that provides storage capabilities with NVMe drives and delivers excellent throughput along with deduplication. Deduplication is highly effective with Dell PowerStore, and there is no performance lag associated with this feature. This represents a very important advantage.

Most of my clients use Dell PowerStore on Windows operating systems.

The unique feature of Dell PowerStore is the data deduplication capability. Compression is an excellent feature that Dell PowerStore offers. Dell PowerStore integrates well with VMware containers and other ecosystems.

The management capabilities of Dell PowerStore are very easy to use. The deployment process for Dell PowerStore is straightforward. The interface and methodologies are simple and user-friendly, which provides a significant advantage.

Dell removed support for RecoverPoint for VM on Dell PowerStore, which has been problematic. RecoverPoint is no longer supported on Dell PowerStore, and Dell has also discontinued the RecoverPoint appliance. This creates challenges for customers who still require on-premises deployment and who lack redundancy features.

There is a need for third-party solutions because data resiliency only occurs at the storage level, but nothing is available at the application level. If someone steals data from storage by taking out a hard drive, encryption and other features would be advantageous. However, in scenarios involving ransomware attacks, there is no control available.

I have been working with Dell PowerStore for approximately three years.

I would rate the stability of Dell PowerStore as a ten.

I would rate the scalability of Dell PowerStore as a ten.

EMC Square support was significantly stronger and better than current support. The knowledge depth and expertise of the engineers was very high. However, after the merger with Dell, the support quality has degraded. There is a noticeable difference between what was experienced during the EMC days and what is provided currently.

The deployment process for Dell PowerStore is straightforward. The interface and methodologies are simple and user-friendly. Dell's management interface has been very simple and accessible, which represents a good advantage.

Pure represents very good competition in this space and does compete with Dell PowerStore.

I am using Dell PowerStore 500T, and I have two appliances for my customer.

I am not clustering multiple Dell PowerStore appliances.

Compression is an excellent feature that Dell PowerStore offers.

Currently, the pricing for Dell PowerStore is very high, so customers in the SMB segment cannot afford it.

Dell PowerStore does help reduce organizational capital expenditures, but the price of storage and servers has increased significantly. Many organizations are considering cloud solutions because of these cost considerations.

I use APEX AIOps, also known as CloudIQ, with Dell PowerStore.

I have used approximately fifteen to twenty thousand IOPS in my scenario with APEX AIOps, and it has much higher capability, which provided very good throughput.

I find it important to have the ability to add capacity in single drive increments through drive packs with Dell PowerStore, which is useful.

Dell has discontinued selling Avamar and has stopped selling some products such as Networker. Dell is focusing more on PowerProtect, which does not complete the solution.

I rated this review with an overall rating of nine.

We have implemented Dell PowerStore for small sites needing mirrored storage. To ensure high availability, the storage is set up in two different locations, possibly in the same building but far apart.

For example, when you have a large warehouse that could have almost 800 meters between the server rooms, we put one in one server room and one in the other. If something happens to the one on one side of the building, you still have the other one.

There have been no significant benefits to the organization because Dell PowerStore is expensive, and we have found that it offers the same functionality as other storage solutions.

Powerstore's cyber-resilient approach protects our data well. We haven't had any problems. 

Dell PowerStore is too expensive, and it could be less complicated. It isn't as user-friendly as other options, especially regarding the user interface.

We have been using Dell PowerStore for about one year.

It is hard to know how stable PowerStore servers are since we've only used it for a year, but they have worked so far. 

We contacted them once about to test a VxRail solution. That was quick, and it was working, so it's hard to gauge their support. 

Neutral

We also use Nimble Storage for other sites. They likely decided to use Dell based on server pricing and simplifying purchases by choosing the same vendor for storage. However, we are considering returning to Nimble Storage.

Dell PowerStore is too expensive for what it does.

Currently, we are exploring Huawei solutions because they offer the same thing for a third of the price. 

I rate Dell PowerStore Rack Servers seven out of 10. 

I use the solution in my company as block storage.

The tool's most valuable features are compression and speed.

The particular models of Dell PowerStore we use in our company are our main storage tools for the commercial insertion business we do. In our company, we Dell PowerStore so that we can store a lot of data in it and the compression is really needed so that we can just have the space.

Regarding the size of my company's environment and how much space we use in the tool, I would say that we use close to 500 terabytes of data.

The product is great in terms of workload consolidation, power efficiency, and performance. The performance increase from the use of Dell Compellent and Dell Isilon is one of the reasons my company picked Dell PowerStore, which is so that we can get the compression and speed that it provides. The tool automatically reduces our workload time. In our company, we used to have job times running into hours, like 12 or 14 hours, and it has now been reduced to two hours because of the tool's speed. Instead of 4:1 data reduction, my company only gets 3:1 data reduction. My company is waiting for the patches and product to proceed with its next release so that we can get the 5:1 data reduction feature.

I use Dell PowerStore's integration capabilities. My company uses VMware on Dell PowerStore.

Dell PowerStore's integration with VMware has been beneficial in areas like speed and compression.

My company has been able to reduce footprint and data consolidation. In my company, we were able to consolidate all of our Barebone Servers onto VMs, and then onto Dell PowerStore. My company has been able to consolidate around sixty different servers along with an equal amount of virtual machines using Dell PowerStore.

Monitoring is an area of concern in the product where improvements are required. My company monitors a lot of stuff. My company does monitoring through SNMP traps since Dell PowerStore doesn't allow us to do any monitoring. It is pretty hard for our company to have a central monitoring system on Dell PowerStore since it doesn't have any monitoring capabilities.

I have experience with Dell PowerStore for years. My company has been using Dell PowerStore 3000T for four years, and we plan to move to Dell PowerStore 3200T soon. I am a user of the tool.

The product has been stable, and my company has not faced any issues. My company may have dealt with a handful of failed drivers. There was an issue where the memory got bad, and our company had to replace the memory part.

The scalability of the product is not something that is currently applicable to my company. I don't have any experience with the availability features of the product.

Based on whatever little service my company has used from the support team, I feel they are good. Though the technical team takes time to provide an answer to a query, I have noticed that they always provide the correct solution. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

My company does use other products apart from Dell PowerStore, but my group does not use any other tools.

My company did not have any issues with the setup process. The only issue my organization had with the product was associated with the monitoring part.

I am not aware of any savings that may be made from the use of the product.

Dealing with the licensing part of the product is very simple, especially considering the fact that we don't have many licenses associated with the tool.

My company did evaluate other products in the market, especially since there were different vendors offering different platforms in the market.

I cannot evaluate Dell PowerStore's pros and cons against other solutions since my company has been a Dell shop for years.

My company has not faced any issues with the product, and we also enjoy the speed and flexibility the tool provides when managing our workload.

I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

I use the solution in my company for the storage of the data in our centralized IT infrastructure.

The benefits my company and I have experienced from the use of the solution revolve around the continuity in operations that the product offers.

The solution's most valuable features are deduplication and availability. The product also offers reliability and generally doesn't crash.

My company uses a local cloud and not Dell CloudIQ to manage and analyze storage.

The challenges my company was trying to address with the implementation of Dell PowerStore, were that we wanted to achieve upgrades in an app mode. A majority of the upgrades should be done in an app mode because the boxes are always in production, or else when you need to stop it for operational reasons, it becomes very difficult for our company since our business functions twenty-four hours every day. I want Dell to offer updates via app mode. 

When it comes to workload consolidation, Dell has been helpful depending on the business because now we need to put the workloads on an on-premises model and also on the cloud as our system is very complex. My company has a lot of applications on the cloud and some others in the data center and on-premises version, so we need to have the ability to put applications in both areas. 

My company already uses the 4:1 data reduction feature attached to the product, but now we want to have something more complex like a 10:1 reduction functionality, as it reduces the cost associated with an all-flash storage solution.

In terms of Dell PowerStore's Cyber-resilient data approach to security, I would say that my company believes Dell Technologies to be better than the other brands. My company has dealt with several brands, and we believe that Dell is the best in terms of the functionalities it offers.

My company uses Dell PowerStore's integration capabilities since, in the centralized infrastructure, we work with solutions like VMware, Veeam, and Dell PowerProtect. Everything is integrated together in our company's environment. My company is going to use the tool's integration capabilities to enhance our resilience. 

It is very important for my company that Dell PowerStore offers good integration capabilities, especially since it helps with backup, which is an important aspect. If there is a cyber incident, you must restart all the data from the box, and at such a time, if you don't have good integration capabilities, it can be difficult for you to store the last saved data on the storage.

I use Dell PowerStore for AI-driven workload, as it is something that is very important for our company since the AI part helps us get all the benefits attached to the product and helps store the data.

The product can improve by offering AI-based functionalities to users. AI-based functionalities can enhance the tool's performance in moments when the demand is high from the users. The AI-based features can also help users maintain data in a more reachable manner during high demand. Dell PowerStore's throughput limit of the boxes can be improved.

I have been using Dell PowerStore for seven years. I am a customer of Dell.

The product is reliable and stable.

When the partners designed the solution for our company, they knew our requirements, so in the past seven years, my company has not had the need to extend its capacity. After considering the need for the original capacity of our company, the partners added 20 or 30 percent more capacity for the future.

My company gets support from the partner who installed the product in our organization. My company uses the data center model as a service. When the partner designed the architecture for us, though our company participated in seeing it, they did the operation and maintenance.

In the past, my company has used products like Veritas, HP, and HPE. Currently, my company works with Dell to implement cyber resiliency when it comes to storage products.

My company has not deployed the product, and it was done by one of the partners of our organization's in our data center. My company did not have the detailed procedure required to deploy the tool. The product's deployment phase was very fast.

The solution is deployed using Azure Cloud. Around 85 percent of the product is deployed on Azure, and the rest 15 percent is deployed on AWS.

I have experienced a return on investment from using the product, especially in areas like maintenance and lack of outages.

Based on my assessment of Veritas, HP, Dell, and HPE, I see that Dell offers more cyber resiliency than other tools. There is a combination of factors to consider when assessing different products, including areas like benefits, features, and costs. The price of Dell PowerStore is similar to the product offered by Veritas, HP, and HPE. There are only differences when it comes to the area of features.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

There is a lot of deduplication and compression involved, virtualization projects, and some databases where we get better compression and deduplication.

The number of IOPs we get compared to the previous model, Unity, is much more robust. It provides the best compression and deduplication, saving money and ensuring efficiency since the deduplication is inline.

PowerStore is robust compared to the previous models like Unity, and it provides excellent compression and deduplication.

The replication part needs improvement, particularly the integration of RecoverPoint. The best solution for application is RecoverPoint, but PowerStore does not have direct integration with it currently.

I have been working with PowerStore for three to three and a half years now.

The stability of the product is high. I would rate it eight out of ten.

PowerStore is very scalable. I would rate its scalability an eight because we have no issues expanding storage.

I rate Dell's technical support very high. Their experts are available and whenever I open any case, it gets resolved in minimal time. I am 100% satisfied with the quality of the support.

Positive

The initial setup is very simple.

The price is medium, not very high or low. However, it should be more flexible. They price it based on effective capacity, not raw capacity.

Huawei is the main competitor, and it has some good features and architecture compared to PowerStore.

I can recommend PowerStore to other users, 100%.

We primarily use Dell PowerStore as part of our VMware infrastructure and other Dell servers.

The biggest improvement we found when moving into Dell PowerStore was the deduplication and compression. I did not believe we could get that much storage into one. However, the solution brought it down and compressed everything, which was amazing.

We went from Compellent, which was over 100 terabytes, down to Dell PowerStore, which was 30 terabytes. It significantly saved on rack space, power, and cooling.

Our organization uses CloudIQ to manage and analyze our Dell storage. It's a little confusing because we have multiple IT shops, and I can see what other groups are using. I can only see what I can see, and they can only see what they see. So, it becomes more of a viewing thing than actually doing.

We were looking to replace our old Compellent hardware by implementing Dell PowerStore. The data reduction with Dell PowerStore was much better than we had with Compellent. It was truly amazing.

We are utilizing Dell PowerStore’s integration with VMware, which makes it a lot easier to manage.

We have been able to reduce our organizational footprint using Dell PowerStore. We went from 18U of rack space down to 2U.

We have two different PowerStores in two different geographical locations, but they're separate workloads altogether. They're not replicated or anything like that.

When you purchase the solution, it comes with professional services, and our experience with them has been great.

Dell PowerStore is far superior to other Dell products we've used over the years, such as EqualLogic and Compellent. I would recommend the solution to other users because it is worthwhile.

Sometimes, you have to go back and forth with the technical support team, where they want you to do something you've already done.

I have been using Dell PowerStore for a couple of years.

We haven't had to scale out the tool because we sized it right. Based on all our research, scaling out the solution should be pretty straightforward if we ever need to.

The solution’s technical support is pretty good. Sometimes, you have to go back and forth with the technical support team, where they want you to do something you've already done.

Positive

We previously used Compellent. We switched to Dell PowerStore because Compellent was approaching end-of-life.

Before choosing the solution, we evaluated Pure Storage. We chose Dell PowerStore because Dell is a trusted partner.

Overall, I rate the solution ten out of ten.

We are a Dell partner and have been installing PowerStores since the beginning of their release. Austria is a small market so we usually deploy PowerStore 1200 and for smaller installations, we deploy PowerStore 500. We have a few customers that use PowerStore 3200.

The primary use case for PowerStore is typical block storage for VMware environments and for SQL and Microsoft bare metal systems.

We use CloudIQ to manage our customers. It is useful for us to predict the capacity and monitor performance.

PowerStore helps reduce energy consumption for our clients.

PowerStore helps reduce our client's footprint by up to four times.

We see a data reduction of three point five to one typically for our customers.

The most valuable feature is the unwavering performance. It is a fast system that is reliable. The entire Dell ecosystem offers good integration with powerful tech.

It would be helpful for us to have support for the S3 protocol because our main competitor has the S3 protocol in their system. We lost a few teams because of the requirements of S3, so maybe that could be added to their roadmap.

Dell's data reduction guarantee, initially straightforward for claiming additional storage, has become more complex. Their current analysis digs deeper into data composition, and some customers with encrypted data have been denied additional storage under the guarantee.

I have been using Dell PowerStore for three years.

Dell PowerStore is stable.

Dell PowerStore scalability is a big advantage because we can scale out if we install two or three appliances in the cluster using scale-up architecture and also scale up to four enclosures.

The Dell support is good. We have good experience starting with the Dell support portal.

Positive

We are a Dell partner but we also sell NetApp systems. NetApp was an early developer of QLC drives which Dell has only recently started to use with their first shipment going out in July of 2024. The pros of PowerStore are the performance, reliability, and flexibility. We can increase our storage pool by one SSD. Other vendors require a minimum of five SSDs or a bank to grow.

Dell PowerStore is affordable and the license is just a face license which is great.

I would rate Dell PowerStore eight out of ten.  

Dell PowerStore four point zero now can automatically replicate file services. This is an important feature of our customers but we have yet to upgrade to the latest version.

In Austria, we have installed one-half with about 15 to 20 times eight terabyte SSDs. So that means an effective capacity between 100 terabytes and 500 terabytes.