Dell PowerStore Reviews

We mostly use Dell PowerStore to replace people's outdated technology. Most of the time, if it is Compellent, we use it for that. It easily outpaces Nimble, even though HPE changed its name.

We are using PowerStore 500T and PowerStore 1200T. We have multiple appliances. We have clients that have five and six now, but they are not clustering them.

We recommended Dell PowerStore to one of our clients. They have since standardized on Dell PowerStore. They are setting up a data center and chose Dell PowerStore 5200T to meet their needs. Their deployed ones were all 1200s or 1000s, and now, they are going with much bigger ones for the data center. They like having one interface and one vendor. It has been extremely good.

Overall, it is fairly straightforward. They have standardized the platform for many of their solutions because it makes it much easier to sell and support since PowerFlex and PowerStore have the same footprint. They just put a different OS on them. The standardization makes it very handy. They can hopefully drive the prices lower, but we do not see them having any competition right now.

The management is easy. Intelligence is built into it. Most of the people just set it and forget it. It takes care of itself. It adjusts itself. I am not saying that you should set it and forget it. You should be checking it once in a while, but most of our clients do not. They just set it, and if something goes drastic, such as running out of disk space, they call us, but it warns you early enough. They get a warning, and then it is just trying to get dry fast enough depending on what they are doing.

Compression has improved, which is one of the enhancements that came with an update, which is great. Dell now claims 5:1, which I do not believe, but it used to be 4:1. The compression is really good and extremely important because you do not have to buy too much, and you can grow it when you need to. Compression is probably the key feature that allows us to slay the competition. I am not aware of the competition having as aggressive compression.

PowerStore improves operational efficiency. Having the NVMe drives is much faster than having SSD drives. We are in a new world there, and the compression is inline, which is awesome. It is just a sweet ride.

We utilize PowerStore’s built-in integrations for VMware and Kubernetes or Containers. VMware integration is very important.

Updates come with enhancements. Each time we do an update, there is an enhancement, like new features, which is extraordinary. Other companies would try to charge for all that, but the enhancements just come with it. 

The maintenance is a bit expensive. The service and support are there for three years, but after the third year, it is pretty pricey for renewal. I hope Dell addresses that. Everything is pricey these days anyway. It is not like the old days of Compellent.

We used to be able to see the metrics for our customers. On Compellent, we could look up that customer and see all the metrics. That is not allowed for us now. We cannot do that anymore. I have to be explicitly allowed by the customer to do that, and some companies' security does not allow that.

I have used the solution for at least four, or maybe five, years.

The stability has been excellent. We have not had any issues with that. I have had a client that had a fire. It was a pretty bad smoke fire, and PowerStore came through it like a champ. It is still going. However, it needs to be replaced. It is on one processor until the insurance comes through. It is a 500T.

The scalability has been extremely good.

The customer service has been excellent. I would rate them a solid nine out of ten.

Positive

We have used different solutions. We moved to Dell PowerStore because it is easy.

If you look at the pricing in the field right now, are you going to buy a storage product from HPE that pretty much has a different engineer every week? Also, HPE makes their products in China, which Dell is not doing anymore. They got rid of making products in China. I believe the Dell PowerStore and PowerFlex are produced in the Northeast, so it is a US-based product. The components do not come from China. That is a very strong aspect. With the advent of AI, you need the IO that a PowerStore can give you because things are not getting any less complicated. They require more and more data every day.

The deployment is easy. With the tools that come with PowerStore, you can pretty much migrate from anything.

We are deployment-certified, and we can have everything done within two days. However, we are not Dell. We got ourselves deployment-certified because we wanted to save money on the deal, and we did not want to get sucked into the vortex of the deployment process because there is so much minutiae there.

We are a partner with Dell, and we advise our clients. We are technical advisors for our clients, and the good thing about us deploying is that we can migrate their setup over several weeks. They do not have to do it all at once like with Dell. 

The rate is always too high. Nobody likes paying for it. I have not seen a client yet who says that the price should be higher.

Initially, people look at it, but when they see what the benefits are, it is a no-brainer. We can give them good pricing at the outset.

I would rate Dell PowerStore a nine out of ten.

My main use case is datastore storage, specifically for storing VMs.

I think it improves my work, not necessarily the organization, because I spend very little time managing it; it saves time. I spend little time administering it, and it's simple; you do it once, it works. You come back to it when you need to reallocate from time to time, but otherwise that's it.

The features I find the most valuable, the best ones that I especially like, include the allocation and the provisioning, which is quite simple for creating a lot of LUNs and assigning them to a particular host or host group; it's something that is done really quickly. The graphical interface does everything and we don't need to use the CLI; we can do everything, and it's user-friendly and simple.

I believe the solution could be improved through better unification with the NAS file storage component. While the product currently fulfills its role perfectly for the SAN portion, it lacks the necessary versatility to natively handle all protocol types, specifically NFS and SMB or CIFS.

I have been using Dell PowerStore for 3–4 years.

I did not have downtime or outages; we haven't had any major issues; it's quite stable and reliable in general. We touch it very little; we configure it and kind of forget it, coming back only if there's a need to evolve.

I think it adapts well to my organization's growth because for now the scalability is sufficient for our current use; for the future as well, we can also add more alongside if needed. Since it's managed at the SAN level, we can assign the LUNs as we want.

I have used technical support sometimes, more for feature requests and to know how to use a given feature; Disk replacements are managed proactively by Dell. The system triggers automated alerts, and replacements are handled directly by the manufacturer rather than a third-party reseller, which guarantees faster turnaround times.

I would rate the support an 8–9.

Positive

Before adopting Dell PowerStore, I considered other solutions; for example, we had other solutions with HP, which are still more complex to use. We also looked at NetApp for the file part, but Dell PowerStore seemed to us to be the best value for money.

I would describe the deployment experience as quite simple; assigning IP addresses, cabling, and racking is quite simple, and then the configuration part with the guided configuration is fairly easy.

I can confirm that I see a return on investment; I don't have the figures for you, but clearly a return on investment exists. Essentially for a lower investment than other solutions, we have an equivalent service.

I think the price and the licenses are very consistent compared to the competition.

We also looked at NetApp for the file part, but Dell PowerStore seemed to us to be the best value for money.

One of the challenges I'm trying to address by choosing this specific Dell PowerStore is that I knew the previous products, VNX and Unity, and I find one of the advantages is the simplicity; it's much simpler to use than competing arrays. I don't know if I should give names, whether it's HP 3PAR or NetApp – they do other things but they're more complicated, whereas Dell PowerStore remains very simple to use.

I have performance metrics that indicate the success of working with Dell PowerStore; built into Dell PowerStore are some reporting tools, which show ways to see the load, allocations, and remaining free space.

We use those tools; if we encounter performance issues, we look at the entire SAN chain, whether it's on the array side, switch side, or initiator side.

It gives a report that focuses mainly on the backend part; however, it's true that we perhaps lack a tool to cover the whole chain from A to Z, and we do that more at the SAN fabric level.

At the range level at Dell, I find it a bit complicated between PowerScale, Dell PowerStore, and the older systems; trying to understand which product is best for our needs is a little bit complicated, and we need support from the pre-sales team.

I give this product an overall rate of 8 out of 10.

I mainly use Dell PowerStore for the storage area for customers in the SAN environment.

I find Dell PowerStore's solution most valuable, especially in the area of data deduplication and compression, which Dell PowerStore performs very well.

Dell PowerStore plays a very big role in our company regarding AI initiatives because we have many companies that already use AI and want to expand it further. Performance is definitely in demand there, and that is why Dell PowerStore plays a very significant role.

Dell PowerStore can contribute to growth and business success because it has enabled a rethinking, especially with NVMe and the all-flash system, which it also provides for smaller mid-sized customers. This simply eliminates the discussion about whether there is enough performance, and mid-sized customers have already gained experience in how well and quickly they can cover their workloads.

I find the design of the products somewhat negative because they are different in terms of expansion level and are somewhat oversized, especially for small and medium-sized customers.

That would be an area where Dell PowerStore can be improved. We have the 500T, the 1200T, and then already the 3000. I think the jumps between the series are simply not explained in a meaningful way to me or to the customers. It is either called small, then really very small, or large, and then it is called large again. It is then not really intended for small or medium-sized German companies.

When we talk about disaggregated infrastructures, the native integration into HCI solutions is currently still not available with Dell PowerStore. When it comes to hyper-converged systems, enhancing them with Dell PowerStore would be desirable. Functions such as transparent failover are also missing, which we still miss at the Fibre Channel level. Because synchronization is currently only available at the iSCSI level, and that also hurts us significantly at the moment.

I have been using Dell PowerStore for more than five years.

I rate the stability and reliability of Dell PowerStore as very stable and very reliable, due to the existing NVMes and all-flash systems. However, it has also become a more sophisticated SAN solution that may appear somewhat oversized for existing customers. We have the feeling that the gap is widening even further. I hope that we can therefore also use the solution for smaller mid-sized companies in the future.

I find the pricing and licensing for Dell PowerStore very difficult in recent months because the situation has deteriorated significantly. The pricing policy in particular has been different in recent months for unexplained reasons. We are not referring here to project discounts, but rather to list prices and where the list prices actually originate. We question that quite often because they have been increased by thirty to thirty-five percent every quarter for unexplained reasons, and that definitely does not go down well with customers. We do know that demand is very high, but it is not suitable for the midmarket.

We consider other solutions like IBM storage solutions and HP storage solutions before deciding on Dell PowerStore. There are different manufacturers. However, if we look specifically at the Dell portfolio, then it is either PowerVault or Dell PowerStore itself. Otherwise, if it gets larger, PowerFlex.

I am directly involved in working with Dell PowerStore from the beginning in sales, pre-sales, through to implementation and execution in the projects, and it works perfectly.

I also handle the installation of Dell PowerStore, not only directly, but also indirectly through distribution or with our own resources. That indeed runs smoothly with Dell PowerStore, and also much faster than what I used to know from other products.

We measure success with Dell PowerStore using installations of very different sizes, as we also cover various workloads. Dell PowerStore is one of our central solution approaches that we pursue, especially in the SAN environment. Only in the area of unified or object store does Dell PowerStore appear to be not the simplest or best solution. Dell is having a hard time bringing Dell PowerStore properly to market, and there are other solutions that Dell is marketing, which we also have in view. I rate this review as an eight out of ten.

We store all our critical business databases and applications on Dell PowerStore, and we use it as the storage for our virtualization environment, so pretty much all our workloads from virtualization to database, it's the main primary storage for everything.

Dell PowerStore has supported the growth and operational success of our organization by reducing the footprint, rack space, power consumption, and the resources needed to run the backend storage, which has been consolidated into just 2U, thereby enhancing efficiency. We now know everything is there, as there's one GUI, and that's where it is.

The features of Dell PowerStore that I like the most include the simplified web GUI, and setting up replication to protection groups on the other site was pretty straightforward. I have presented straight-up Linux NFS shares off it as well to certain systems, which we weren't able to do on our old storage, so that was very useful.

Nothing comes to mind at the moment on how Dell PowerStore can be improved or any additional features I would like to see included in the next releases. I do not have any current pain points that I would like them to fix, although we did have one issue when an update stopped the phone-home solution, however they fixed that via support.

We've had Dell PowerStore for the last two years.

I assess the stability and reliability of Dell PowerStore as very reliable, as we've only had one alert that had an issue with it in the last two and a half years of our full operational load.

As we require additional storage, or once we hit the capacity limit, Dell PowerStore is easy to expand and add extra capacity, so it will be there for years to come.

I evaluate Dell's customer support as good, as we've always been able to upload the logs and get the parts within the four-hour deadline on the one occasion that we needed them. 

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Dell support a nine. What would make it a ten is that sometimes we go through an initial triage that repeats a lot of the initial triage steps that would have been done by my own engineers, so sometimes it would be nice to skip the starting point.

Positive

We transitioned from an HPE Nimble Storage and an HPE 3PAR, which are no longer supported or offered, to Pure Storage. We had also previously considered an EMC solution.

There was a general ease of deployment, as it was a fairly intuitive web GUI that was self-explanatory once it was racked.

I evaluated the market and the competition, and we settled on Dell PowerStore as our preferred NVMe flash storage solution, so my initial role was to set it up, get it configured, and get it active in the environment, and then plan the migrations to it.

I have seen some return on my investment with Dell PowerStore. You're getting rid of equipment, with the first 3PAR being a full rack, the other 3PAR being half a rack, and the Nimble being more 8U, so we've basically gone down from two rack spaces to a 2U server space. 

I have realized some money and time savings with Dell PowerStore. We're not spinning up that amount of power, and in terms of time saving, I'm sure it's performing some workloads quicker than the previous disks had to, but operational stability and 24/7, 365 operation is more what we need in our environment.

The advice I would give to other organizations considering Dell PowerStore based on my experience with it is that it has to be highly considered, as the price point was not really any better than the competitors; it was close, and it has worked out well, so stick with your account manager and they will do their best to get you a good deal.

Examples of how features benefited our organization include: previously, for the NFS, for the SIEM cybersecurity solution, we had to have a separate Linux server, where we were able to just do it straight from the Dell PowerStore GUI, so we got rid of three layers of complication and resources that weren't needed. 

I rate Dell PowerStore a perfect ten out of ten.

We were end-of-life on our current Unity 480S all-flash arrays and needed to upgrade to a newer array, and we didn't want to have to pay the extortionate costs for renewing our support for Unity.

Dell PowerStore outperforms Unity by approximately ten to one. 

In terms of performance, it performs very well. Implementation went well. The console GUI is very similar to all the other Dell flagship products, such as Dell PowerProtect Data Manager or Dell Data Domain. All of the front-end console GUIs have been brought together to provide one seamless pane of glass ecosystem, which makes it really easy to move around in the environment. When I'm managing all these systems, that helps me quickly get familiar with where things are going to be placed, which then helps me speed up and do my job a little bit more efficiently.

The most valuable feature of Dell PowerStore is Metro Volumes. It allowed us to remove our current Recovery Point/Broadcom VMware SRM licenses, which cost a fortune, resulting in significant cost savings.

The product stands on its own merit. It does exactly what it's meant to do. It's very scalable, very efficient power-wise and performance-wise.

Cost is one aspect that needs improvement, as selling the drives after purchasing the solution makes them incredibly expensive. The reason we buy it as a whole complete system is because we get such a discount on the drives upfront. When we go to buy or populate more drives in the storage array, they're so expensive. If they could lower the cost for components, we would definitely expand them more and be more inclined to buy more storage units, but it's currently a price crunch for us. Price is a deterrent to scalability.

We have been using Dell PowerStore since implementing it two months ago.

We've actually crashed the system on purpose and watched Metro do what it was supposed to do. The product does exactly what it claims. We saw that on keynotes at Dell Technologies World 2024, and to see it actually work in our data center was impressive. When I removed all the cables, it failed over within five minutes. It's remarkable to see that actually happen in practice. You hear a lot of talk, but to see the talk go into action is another thing in itself.

We have 700 to 800 people. Dell PowerStore has models such as the 500T that we have in one of our smaller data centers. This solution is more suitable for mid to large-sized businesses. As a Dell company, it's definitely growing with our needs in every aspect, from data protection to storage capacity to the workstation level.

The deduplication feature set built into Dell PowerStore helps us with current scaling for storage because it provides significant data reduction. However, when we need to grow, the price point of buying external storage and filling up new LUNs and racks becomes expensive. We try to budget our storage for Dell PowerStore ahead of time to avoid populating it with more drives later, knowing that adding another rack will be costly. If they can help offset that cost, it would be beneficial.

They provide the same great support that I always receive with all Dell products. Their support is one of the best. That's why we're with Dell.

It was incredibly easy to deploy Dell PowerStore. The deployment time from start to end was a week, which included cabling, configuration, migration of data, and everything coming together.

We've received a return on investment in the coming renewal of our Broadcom VMware licensing. In terms of licensing, we're paying less due to the implementation of the new PowerStore system into our infrastructure.

After attending Dell Technologies World 2024 and seeing the new iterations and feature sets coming out in version five, we were further convinced to go with Dell PowerStore.

There are plans for an AI implementation, a kiosk-type system, that will utilize this storage, but it has been tabled for now. It will likely be picked up at the end of our quarter or beginning of next quarter.

I would rate Dell PowerStore an eight out of ten.

For Dell PowerStore, the major use case is for data, primarily in banks. Dell PowerStore was sold for their data, which supports their FinTrak applications. For Unity, the use case is for their VMware environment as a data store.

Dell PowerStore has helped reduce my organization's capital expenditures because once the storage is made available to the VMware environment in a clustered way, it makes it easy for the end user or VMware administrator to deploy virtual machines instantly. The protocol between the VMware environment and the storage, whether it is 16 gig, 25 gig, 32 gig, or 100 gig, makes deployment faster.

For data resiliency and cybersecurity features in Dell PowerStore, Dell has another solution called Dell PowerScale, which is what most customers we sold Dell products to leverage. That solution works with their data domain appliances along with NetWorker, which is the backup software, and then the Vault infrastructure that also backs up with the data domain for vaulting and backing up or replication to the Vault environment.

Compression and deduplication features in Dell PowerStore are important because they allow me to save data and remove duplicate data. When replicating to another site, these features reduce bandwidth, which also reduces pressure on the network. This is why enabling deduplication and compression is important.

Regarding areas for improvement in Dell PowerStore, I noticed a minor inconvenience. I would have preferred if Dell PowerStore could have a common operating system across all their products, as that would be of great advantage.

I have been working on Dell PowerStore for five years since I joined Tennessee.

I do not have significant comments regarding the stability of Dell PowerStore.

In terms of scalability for Dell PowerStore, a few months ago we completed a scale-up for one of the banks, Stanbic Bank, by adding an additional shelf to the controller. They were running out of space, so we had to scale up by adding a shelf. There is no difficulty in that process because space was allocated before the addition of the shelf.

My experience overall with technical support from Dell for Dell PowerStore is very satisfactory. Their support is good and helps you through to the point where all problems are solved. I rate technical support from Dell for Dell PowerStore as 10 out of 10. Their support has been fantastic.

Positive

The solutions I have worked with that are similar to Dell PowerStore are NetApp and Huawei.

The experience with deployment for Dell PowerStore is not complex. It is simple and straightforward.

Because we are a partner, we purchase Dell PowerStore directly from Dell through our distributor.

I feel the end user will be able to speak much about return on investment with Dell PowerStore and should be able to provide detailed feedback on that.

Dell PowerStore is expensive, but those that can afford it can purchase it.

When I compare Dell with other vendors regarding technical features and pricing, I think both are better, but there will always be one ahead of the others. Even though they are good, there is always one ahead.

The best features in Dell PowerStore that I find most beneficial are generally those that are most important. If they were not important, I do not think the OEM or the product owner would include those features there, as they are based on the benefits they render to the customer or to the end user.

The workload performance in Dell PowerStore is great. As I mentioned earlier, none of the customers have complained that they had any issues with workload or writing to the storage.

I work with management capabilities in Dell PowerStore mostly with the implementation and then administration, focusing on how to administer it and how to implement it.

I do not work with CloudIQ in Dell PowerStore, which is also called APEX AIOps.

I have not enrolled in the Lifecycle Extension, formerly branded as Anytime Upgrade.

The decision to choose Dell PowerStore is the customer's choice. I can present two or three solutions to the customer, and because of the features and the customer's needs, their experience, or what they have read about the solution, it depends on the customer to choose the one that suits their demands.

I only integrate Dell PowerStore with VMware.

The integration of Dell PowerStore with VMware is seamless.

I have given this review an overall rating of 10 out of 10.

I use Dell PowerStore for an application. In my last work at B3, we bought Dell PowerStore for a specific corporate back-end, back-office solution for one application to solve problems with the service desk. We created some LUNs for a SQL Server and presented them to some Microsoft Windows Clusters using Dell PowerStore, but we don't use remote replication for Dell PowerStore; it's in a single, specific solution for an application attending a SQL Server.

The solution is implemented in finance. B3 is the Brazilian stock exchange, and all the solutions I worked on there for the last 15 years were in finance.

It reduces the time and complexity of the deployment process. It’s quite simple and can be done quickly. I believe it has significantly reduced the time required to deploy. Overall, the deployment process is very straightforward.

I really appreciate the management and the management console of Dell PowerStore along with features such as deduplication. It's good and sufficient.

Additionally, it's very easy and simple to use Dell PowerStore for moving and optimizing workloads within the cluster. It's just to provision the LUNs for the cluster. If we have a virtual environment like VMware, we can easily perform storage migration from a source disk to a target disk. This process allows us to transfer data seamlessly. In my previous jobs, we typically utilized tools such as Open Replicator, which is provided by Dell EMC, to move data between Dell EMC storage systems.

Furthermore, Dell's post-sales support is strong and very good.

If Dell PowerStore had more controllers, making it more reliable and resilient, it would be better. The most important thing for the customer is resilience and business continuity. When we have a failure in one controller and only two controllers, that's not good enough. If we could scale Dell PowerStore to four controllers, it would be better than what we have today.

I have worked with Dell EMC for more than 15 years, and also HPE, including 3PAR.

Dell's post-sales support is very strong and good. I trust in Dell's post-sales support. I would rate them a ten out of ten.

Positive

I have experience with NetApp storage solutions, hybrid NetApp, all-flash storage systems, and Hitachi models such as USPV and VSP, but my strong knowledge is with Dell EMC, PowerMax solutions, PowerFlex, VXRail, and hyper-converged infrastructure solutions.

I have deployed Dell PowerStore just once, but I have deployed many other products such as PowerMax 200, PowerMax 8000, and others. I have deployed a lot of high-end storage platforms from EMC and Dell EMC including DMX series.

I deployed it on-premises; the model is 500T. It was very simple and easy to do. I particularly really appreciate using the Apex AIOps or the CloudIQ solution from Dell EMC as it allows me to observe all the metrics and telemetrics from the performance through the SAS portal, which I think is very good for knowing about the workloads and how the equipment is working.

When it comes to Dell solutions, I find PowerMax to be the most comprehensive option. It offers a range of features such as remote replication, security snapshots, immutable security snapshots, and SRDF capabilities—both synchronous and asynchronous. It also includes features like chip copy disk mode, deduplication, peak provisioning, and effective data reduction. There are some similarities between the two, but PowerMax has several advantages. It comes with more controllers and greater resiliency, making it better suited for critical mission environments.

I would rate Dell PowerStore an eight out of ten.

Dell PowerStore is used for SAN in our organization.

I prefer Dell PowerStore because the user interaction is excellent and the GUI is also outstanding. Previously, Dell produced Unity devices for SAN along with VNX, but VNX is so complicated. The GUI is not suitable for a basic or beginner user, and beginners need to learn extensively about VNX. In contrast, when you log in to Dell PowerStore's GUI, the user interface is so intuitive that you can easily find your use case.

I appreciate that Dell PowerStore is a scale-out solution where we can add multiple clusters and nodes. With Unity, we could add only certain clusters or nodes, but in Dell PowerStore, we can add multiple enclosures as well.

We are using five clusters in Dell PowerStore across different regions, with three for production and two for data protection, binding the production to disaster recovery. For disaster recovery, it performs well compared to others. I believe Dell PowerStore is the best compared to PowerVault, which I find less efficient and not recommended for big enterprises.

Dell PowerStore does not require any downtime for upgrades because we have redundancy with clusters. If controller A goes for an upgrade, controller B takes all the processes without impacting any users. The deduplication process in Dell PowerStore is superior compared to VNX and Unity.

I don't have any ideas for improvements regarding Dell PowerStore as everything seems good and they continuously implement bug fixes and upcoming patches.

I have 2.4 years of experience using Dell PowerStore, and before that, the product was used for around 3.5 years in the project.

I rate the stability of Dell PowerStore as a 10 out of 10. I have not experienced any downtime, bugs, or glitches, and it's much better than previous technologies.

I rate the scalability of Dell PowerStore as a 9 out of 10 because occasionally some bugs occur, but they are usually fixed quickly.

I would rate Dell's technical support as a 10 out of 10 because they respond quickly, especially when we have Dell PowerStore in multiple regions. If we cannot connect with one region, we try another, and the available engineer will assist us.

Compared to other solutions in the market, Dell performs very well. If we face any hardware issue and raise a ticket, they respond as quickly as possible compared to other technologies.

Positive

Previously, we were using Unity devices and VNX for SAN. Dell PowerStore offers superior deduplication compared to both VNX and Unity.

The deployment of Dell PowerStore is easy. The ports are easily configured within four to six hours, and the whole deployment process takes about six to seven hours, including port configuration and LDAP setup.

The solution could be a perfect 10, but sometimes the cost is high when we need to add more enclosures to Dell PowerStore. Although I do not know the current cost, I believe the cost can be improved.

I would recommend Dell PowerStore because it's cost-efficient compared to PowerMax. For big enterprises, instead of using PowerMax, we can utilize a couple more clusters in Dell PowerStore.

We are deploying Dell PowerStore on-premises using an auto-cloud through the network.

I don't have any information about how Dell PowerStore was purchased. We didn't use any specific scenario like the AWS marketplace or a direct purchase.

We are unable to determine the number of users using Dell PowerStore because we are providing LUNs to multiple hosts, with multiple users accessing a single host. For instance, one VM can be accessible by a hundred users, and with 30 plus VMs, that's a large number we cannot calculate.

The environment for Dell PowerStore is essentially a global one.

Since implementing Dell PowerStore, it's very fast and very secure. Vulnerabilities are identified in upcoming patches, and Dell provides patches quickly, which is significantly more helpful than waiting three to four months for other products to release their next patch.

We cannot determine how much data we have consolidated using Dell PowerStore because multiple teams are working, and from my end, I'm just monitoring the LUNs and providing reclamation.

We are using Apex AI Ops. The insights from Apex are good as we use it to monitor the cluster health and status, and the connectivity is also good compared to PowerVault, which had some bug issues preventing proper connection with Apex IO.

Some hosts using Dell PowerStore are based on Linux and Unix. Not all hosts are dependent on Windows, as some are configured for Linux and Unix. From our end, I only provide LUN provisioning and reclamation, and I don't have extensive knowledge about Linux.

We utilize built-in integrations, but from our storage team's perspective, we just provide the LUNs to the Windows team, which uses VMware ESXi hosts. I don't think we use Kubernetes.

I have no understanding of the importance of adding capacity in single drive increments versus drive packs.

My overall rating for Dell PowerStore is 9 out of 10.