Dell PowerStore Reviews

My customer typically uses block storage. They have Dell PowerStore in two different locations, with one serving as the production environment and the other as the disaster recovery site. Replication exists between these two locations. One hundred percent of these volumes are allocated to VMware hosts. Approximately ninety percent of the environment is virtual, but the physical machines do not have contact with the storage; only the virtual machines do. The storage is provided to the hosts, which create the datastores, and these datastores are distributed between the VMs.

The organization has Linux VMs, but the storage is not directly connected to any physical Linux machines. Dell PowerStore integration with VMware is implemented, though not with VASA, as the VASA provider was not installed because we did not want the Windows server administrator accessing the storage. However, I can see all the VMs and which datastores they are from the storage view.

Deduplication and compression are very important features because space is always an issue with storage. I consider space constraints to be the main concern for a system storage administrator. Deduplication and compression perform exceptionally well, especially on Dell PowerStore. The compression rate has been very good so far, and we have been able to save several terabytes.

I use Cloud IQ, and it is very important because we get lost in daily tasks and sometimes have no time to actively monitor the systems in the environment. A tool like Cloud IQ keeps sending emails if anything happens, so it provides an important overview of the systems. We also use that tool to collect capacity reports from our environment. I think it is versatile and very useful.

We had a significant incident two years ago when I was preparing one of the Dell PowerStore systems for an upgrade. While running the health check, it started to corrupt every volume inside the system. We had to recover everything from the DR site because the storage became unusable. The issue was eventually found to be a bug inside the health check package. I think Dell should do better at testing those packages before applying them to the public.

I did not have an opportunity to work with it, but I think it would be beneficial to have the ability to increment a disk one at a time.

I have been using Dell PowerStore for four years.

Apart from the issue we had in the past, the system has been quite stable and the performance is amazing. I have no complaints about that.

Scaling has been pretty easy. I did not scale out, only scaled up. When we received a bunch of disks from Dell as compensation for the issue we experienced, we added them to our DR environment because we needed to recover some machines that were not on the replication and had to be recovered from backup, which required additional space. Expanding the space on Dell PowerStore was straightforward, and we had no complaints about that.

During the upgrade I mentioned, I was scaling up with a pack of disks rather than one at a time.

I have contacted technical support multiple times. Support response is reasonable, and they usually reply in time. The team members I have worked with were versatile in their knowledge of the system and never seemed lost regarding Dell PowerStore. I was always well served.

I have prior experience with other storage solutions. Before Dell PowerStore, we also had Dell XIOs, which was a similar storage system but an older version and model. Comparing the two, Dell PowerStore is much faster and more reliable than the XIOs were. I also have experience with IBM equipment, such as the DS9000 and other IBM devices. I think Dell PowerStore can keep up with them in a middle-class or enterprise environment.

During the initial deployment of Dell PowerStore, I only participated in one deployment. I did not directly work on the deployment itself because it was not my function; the company hired someone to handle that. However, I followed the process from beginning to end and found it quite easy. If I had to do it myself, I would be capable of doing so.

The setup is straightforward and one of the easiest I have worked with. Even people joining my team who have no previous experience with storage can learn through the interface in a single day session. While some doubts naturally arise, by the end of one session, they are ready to work with it.

Dell takes care of all implementation needs. I only need to identify the issue and send it to them, and if hardware replacement is required, they will go in and complete the replacement.

I do have two new machines that were installed a couple of months ago. There are two Linux machines that are connected directly to the storage, though I do not have access to those machines.

For me, Dell PowerStore integration is neutral in that the environment would function well without it, but it proved valuable in one instance because we had discrepancies in naming conventions between the storage and VMware. Using the integration, I was able to fix all those discrepancies and keep consistent naming conventions across the environment.

I would rate this product a nine overall.

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.

My main use cases for Dell PowerStore are running mission-critical production workloads where low latency, high IOPS, and predictable performance matter. Most deployments are for virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere) hosting mixed workloads such as application servers, databases, and general VM farms.

I also use it for storage modernization and consolidation projects, replacing legacy arrays, improving performance, and simplifying operations, while keeping room for easy scale-out/scale-up capacity growth as demand increases.

Dell PowerStore has had a positive impact mainly in performance, stability, and operational efficiency.

Better performance and consistency: we’ve seen lower latency and more predictable behavior for mixed workloads, especially in virtualized environments, which improves overall application responsiveness.

Reduced operational friction: provisioning and day-to-day management are straightforward, and scaling capacity is typically an online, low-risk process—so it’s easier to evolve the environment without disrupting production.

Improved consolidation/modernization: in modernization projects, PowerStore helped simplify the storage footprint while delivering a more modern all-flash platform and a cleaner operational model.

Support and reliability: when issues arise, having responsive enterprise support and a solid platform reduces downtime risk and increases confidence for critical workloads.

Overall, it helps teams spend less time “babysitting storage” and more time focusing on delivering services to the business.

Consistent performance with low latency (all-flash NVMe architecture): it handles demanding mixed workloads very well, especially in virtualized environments where “noisy neighbors” can be a problem.

Simple, online scalability: expanding capacity is typically straightforward and doesn’t require disruptive operational steps, which is critical for production.

Modern, easy-to-manage platform: the management experience is clean and the overall day-to-day operations (provisioning, monitoring, maintenance routines) are efficient for infrastructure teams.

Strong support experience: when something needs attention, Dell support tends to be responsive and effective, which matters a lot in critical environments.

PowerStore is already a strong platform, but I’d like to see improvements mainly in operational maturity and automation, especially for large or mission-critical environments:

CloudIQ / APEX: more actionable insights
Fewer generic alerts and more “what to do next” guidance, better root-cause correlation, smarter prioritization, and clearer remediation steps.

Upgrade experience: stronger guardrails and pre-checks
More robust pre-upgrade validation, clearer impact analysis, and safer/cleaner workflows to increase confidence, particularly in conservative environments (e.g., healthcare).

Proactive lifecycle and certificate management
Better built-in visibility and notifications for certificate/lifecycle items, with clearer guided actions to prevent surprises.

Deeper automation and API-driven operations
More ready-to-use automation examples/integrations (Terraform/Ansible style patterns), and richer API coverage for day-2 operations beyond basic provisioning.

If the next release pushes harder on these areas, it will reduce operational overhead and make the platform even more compelling for critical workloads.

I have been using Dell PowerStore for approximately five years.

I have contacted Dell’s technical support and customer support multiple times, and my experience has been very positive.

I can’t speak for every region, but in Brazil the local Dell support team is responsive and knowledgeable. When something is urgent, you can reach the right people quickly and get practical guidance without unnecessary back-and-forth.

That said, in rare complex or high-impact cases, resolution can take longer because the issue may need escalation to specialized teams outside the country. This is expected with enterprise products, and communication throughout the escalation process has generally been clear.

On a scale from 1 to 10, I would rate Dell support a 10 based on my overall experience.

Positive

Overall, the initial setup is straightforward for an experienced infrastructure team. The deployment flow is guided and clear, and if you follow Dell’s documentation and best practices, it’s usually a smooth “step-by-step” process.

The part that can feel more complex is the upfront planning, mainly networking and host connectivity (iSCSI, NVME/FC, NVMe/TCP), multipathing, and getting the environment aligned with the customer’s standards. Once those pieces are validated, the rest of the deployment tends to be quick and predictable.

PowerStore vs Unity XT (Dell)

PowerStore – Pros: more modern all-flash NVMe platform, strong performance/latency, and a forward-looking feature direction.
PowerStore – Cons: typically positioned at a higher tier, so it may not be the best fit for simpler workloads or tighter budgets.

Unity XT – Pros: very solid and mature array, often a great fit for “general purpose” enterprise workloads, usually with a more budget-friendly positioning.
Unity XT – Cons: may not match PowerStore’s performance ceiling and modern architecture for more demanding scenarios.

I’d rate Dell PowerStore 9 out of 10 overall.

Advice to other organizations considering PowerStore:

Validate the use case and sizing up front: be clear about performance needs, growth expectations, and workload profile (especially in virtualized environments).

Plan the connectivity properly: iSCSI/FC/NVMe-TCP design, multipathing, and networking standards make a big difference in having a smooth deployment and stable day-2 operations.

Adopt a solid upgrade/change process: in critical environments, treat firmware upgrades with proper pre-checks, a maintenance window, and, when needed, Dell support involvement.

Get value from monitoring and best practices: use CloudIQ, health checks, and recommended configurations to stay ahead of issues.

If performance, scalability, and enterprise reliability are priorities, PowerStore is a strong choice, just make sure the environment is well designed and managed with good operational discipline.

Dell PowerStore is mainly used for shared storage platforms in small to medium-sized environments where performance is needed, but not necessarily extreme performance, and where a robust and easy-to-use platform is required.

Dell PowerStore could cover use cases in large enterprises for specific domains where organizations want to work in silo mode and avoid high-end platforms that require substantial investments. However, it is clearly built more for small and medium-sized businesses. We use it both internally and for projects we carry out with our clients.

The features I find most valuable in Dell PowerStore are the simplicity of use and the variety of configuration choices available, which are more important to us than performance alone. We wanted integrated environments that include the server, switch, and storage components in relatively small form factors, with controlled power consumption and the ability to scale in a flexible and linear way.

Compared to previous solutions, Dell PowerStore mainly improved scalability. We realized we could make smaller upgrade steps and better support the growth of our different sites. Previously, with each storage upgrade project, we questioned whether we should replace the entire infrastructure because the costs were disproportionate. We wanted to move towards something more compatible with an OPEX model for internal re-invoicing rather than major investment projects.

Dell PowerStore helps with growth because we operate in an economic context that remains relatively tight, with a market that has shown uncertainty for at least the last eighteen months. This scalability and predictability allow us to make the right decisions when launching a project. We can determine exactly how much a project will cost in terms of infrastructure needs. We can also make it easier to launch new projects because we have scalability with relatively small steps, unlike before when major investments meant new projects might not consume all the hardware we provisioned. We had to amortize the volume, CPU capacity, and memory, which were not necessarily consumed right away, resulting in wastage relative to our investments. This situation eventually led us to favor the public cloud, and now we are returning more to what we control: on-premises and sovereign cloud.

Dell PowerStore could be improved on the recommendation and dashboard side. I would also mention overall visibility, having a single ecosystem in which we can find all of our hardware, whether it is Dell PowerStore or other Dell equipment, and ideally, third-party integrations to have complete visibility into what is happening on the different sites and to integrate it quickly into a global dashboard and single view for users and administrators. This would allow us to know where we stand in terms of capacity planning and performance. A section on corporate social responsibility and energy consumption with advice on what we could improve compared to new hardware and new disk formats that could reduce our footprint would also be beneficial.

I would rate Dell PowerStore seven or eight out of ten. There are always areas for improvement, which I mentioned earlier. However, it does meet day-to-day needs. What we would like is perhaps more visibility, especially on the corporate social responsibility aspect, which is becoming important as we are being pushed for increasingly detailed annual reports covering power consumption, CO2 emissions during operation, emissions during production, and transport costs. Software-based optimizations that help us gain efficiency on the storage side would also be valuable. These optimizations could tell us how much less we consume compared to traditional equipment and how much more storage we provide per square meter. Those are things that could be interesting.

I have been using Dell PowerStore for approximately six years.

Dell PowerStore is rather stable as a system and reliable. When there are disks to replace or cards, it is done on time. I believe we have good support from Dell. The support teams handle that part effectively.

We have not used technical support for Dell PowerStore on these environments, or if we did, it was not for major, crippling incidents. Any questions that arose were handled by the internal technical teams.

The good relationship we have with Dell today and the partnership we have developed with them, both for our internal uses and for our external customers, made us choose Dell PowerStore in the end.

Positive

We looked at other solutions that are perhaps a bit more low-cost before choosing Dell PowerStore. We evaluated solutions mainly for file use cases, such as QNAP or Synology, and for slightly more machine-hosting needs, we looked at DataCore as well.

The deployment experience with Dell PowerStore is relatively simple, consistent with all Dell products. We have teams who have been trained on these technologies since the EMC days, so we are in continuity with what we have known previously.

We have teams who have been trained on these technologies since the EMC days, so we are in continuity with what we have known previously. There was good support from the internal teams with real expertise, and the product remains fairly simple nonetheless.

With Dell PowerStore, we have achieved twenty percent savings compared to the previous solution. The savings are mainly on the upgrade thresholds. It is hard to provide a definitive ROI figure because it is more about savings and flexibility that we have gained. For us, there is a real simplification in terms of administration time and a direct saving. We would need to push the analysis further, and that is why we are waiting for those metrics on energy consumption.

We bought Dell PowerStore because it suited us, so I do not really have any comment to make on the price. After all, it is always too expensive, but that is the argument of a buyer.

Around eighty percent of our remote sites are equipped with this type of machine, which is what makes the solution successful, with a total cost of ownership that has perhaps been optimized by twenty to twenty-five percent compared to what we had before. The main gains are on the upgrade steps where we gain financial agility. The overall rating for this review is seven out of ten.

I have been working with Dell PowerStore for many years now, at least five to seven years. I have held many different positions during that period where Dell PowerStore was a component in the solutions. We have used it with VMware for both traditional VMware VMFS, as well as VVol implementations. We have used it with VMware for VDI. We also have many uses for it; we use it as a unified storage array, meaning it does block and file. We have activated the file side and are doing SMB and NFS off of it.

Working in dark sites, they are all sandboxed. From the cybersecurity perspective, you are really worried about either insider threat, meaning a rogue admin is doing bad things on the array and making problems for everybody, or you are worried about outsider threats, like trying to get malware into it. But if it is in a dark site and sandboxed, it does not have that connectivity outside and you have solved your insider threat issue, then from a cybersecurity standpoint, the array is fine.

I appreciate that the NPIV on Dell PowerStore is a very good functional feature. When you plug everything into your Fibre Channel switches, you see both your FC SCSI path and your FC NVMe path. You can choose which topology you want to be presenting your volumes out of.

As far as data resiliency with Dell PowerStore, I have not had any problems with corruptions. I have not had any problems with data being unavailable, other than the previous issues that I have already mentioned. If your NVRAM cache and your read-write cache is too full, then the array comes to a screeching halt. It is still connected, but it is not necessarily processing reads and writes as it should with efficiency. That is where you run into a bunch of your problems. However, you are not losing anything, and the data is still good and intact. Once you solve your NVRAM issues, the data goes back to normal.

One of the big drawbacks on Dell PowerStore that I have run into is the NVRAM cache battery. It does not operate as a traditional active-active storage array, meaning the NVRAM cache on the primary controller is the one that has the NVRAM cache, and if that battery goes dead on that primary controller, it has caused outages.

That is where my biggest issue is with Dell PowerStore. I work a lot of dark sites, and that means they are not internet-connected. Having to call and then give all the information tends to take a lot longer to get to a resolution because they want to follow a script and they want all these things to be given to them. When you work in dark sites, you are not allowed to provide some of that information. I cannot just take the support bundles and ship them off. Dell PowerStore does not have a very good architecture for being able to sanitize the logs so that they could be consumed outside of the dark site. As a result of that, I would say eight out of ten times I usually end up coming up with the solution that fixes the problem with their very agnostic answers.

The big issue with Dell PowerStore is when those NVRAM batteries go bad. The other aspect would be the sizing of what you are putting into the environment. If it is not sized properly for all your hosts and you have put too much in, it does struggle with the read-write cache getting too full. Once that happens, you run into the same problems as if the NVRAM battery has gone bad. It is really about trying to figure out what the sweet spot is. You can have this many ESX clusters attached to it, or you can run this many VMs off of it. Once you do have file enabled, if you are doing it in a unified way, then there become a lot of transactional things that are happening with the NFS or SMB shares. That drives the performance of the overall array down. I have seen where we had NFS for our VDI profiles. That means if you have 10,000 users and they each have their own profile, and you are loading them up at 8:00 in the morning, everybody is logging into their thin client on their VDI. It is going to take a huge performance hit during that timeframe. As a result of that, then you start seeing disk latencies on the actual VMs that are doing their own workloads as well. Going back to my previous statement, once you turn on unified, you are automatically losing 20% of your performance cap off of the physical box itself.

I have been working with Dell PowerStore for many years now, at least five to seven years.

I have experienced many stability issues with Dell PowerStore. Every time we get a bad battery, we encounter problems.

Dell PowerStore is very scalable because they can do clustering, so you can put more Dell PowerStore appliances into a fleet. You can then load balance your work. In certain aspects when the price works out to be able to do some of that, then that is how you would get into the realm of performance that a Pure Storage array gives you.

For the support of Dell PowerStore, I would give them a rating of six out of ten.

I use everything in my environment. I have Hitachi, Pure Storage, Western Digital and TeleFlash, Oracle ZFS, Cohesity, and many others.

The initial deployment of Dell PowerStore is easy. It is really about getting it set up and putting on the latest version of the PowerStore code, and then running through your initial setup, defining all your networks and defining your use cases. It really is dependent upon what you are purchasing it for.

We have maintenance contracts for Dell PowerStore, but in terms of doing firmware upgrades and life cycle replacements and other activities of that nature, that is all handled at my level.

Pure, hands down, is going to be the best. With their software and everything else, it is very intuitive, very easy to set up, very easy to manage. It just depends on what kind of environment you are building and will use, but on the Purity arrays, you get your block, you get your file, and they are all integrated in. With the later versions of Purity, the file aspects are containerized, so it is virtual servers living within the environment. You set up a virtual server for whichever protocol you want to use, and then that virtual server does its own thing, and it does not consume the performance of the array. Whereas on Dell PowerStore, when you turn it into a unified array, you are basically cutting 20% of your performance that then gets dedicated to being able to serve files for it.

The pricing for Dell PowerStore is probably the most compelling selling piece for it because it is traditional. The pricing is not bad. Pure is very expensive because it is all NVMe technology, and it is all SSD on it. From the Pure perspective, price per gig is a lot more expensive than Dell PowerStore. However, performance-wise, I would not be able to say that a Purity array and Dell PowerStore would be at all in the same ballpark.

I have not tried clustering multiple Dell PowerStore appliances because it did not meet our requirements performance-wise.

We have maintenance contracts for Dell PowerStore, but in terms of doing firmware upgrades and life cycle replacements and other activities of that nature, that is all handled at my level.

My overall rating for Dell PowerStore is seven out of ten.

Dell PowerStore serves as the primary storage for enterprise infrastructure environments. For example, if we want to save a video or call log, or write an email, we can save that data into Dell PowerStore.

In terms of resilience, Dell PowerStore comes with many different models and components with internal resilience at the hardware level. On the software side, they have implemented built-in security functionalities and features such as secure BIOS and data encryption in place. To fight against cybersecurity and ransomware attacks, they have features like safe mode snapshots and immutable snapshots, which means that customers, viruses, or man-in-the-middle attackers cannot log into the system and erase, modify, or encrypt those snapshots or data without customer notification.

With Dell's broad portfolio, they have linked their online system CloudIQ, their online management system. They have online management scanning in place. If any large-level data changes occur, they will by default deny those operations and notify the customer and user of what is happening. All of these features are done automatically and optimized, so customers do not need additional setup to have these features, which is excellent for fighting cybersecurity attacks.

In terms of consolidating data, Dell PowerStore has built-in features such as data compression and deduplication, including global deduplication. When customers store data in it, Dell has its own technologies on the operating system side that will effectively compress the data, allowing customers to save much more data than they originally purchased. Consider a car with a fuel tank that can hold ten gallons of gas, which would allow for approximately 300 miles of travel. However, with hybrid mode technology, the system can reuse unused space or energy and reclaim unused resources. These technologies effectively improve efficiency and allow customers to benefit more.

The features mentioned are already present in the current release of Dell PowerStore. I cannot think of any specific improvement. However, I would say that everything is becoming very expensive nowadays, including memory storage and chips. If Dell could leverage their supply chain advantage and source from quality providers to effectively bring down costs, that would definitely benefit customers and partners. It would make it easier to sell more of the product to customers. The current major challenge with the product is that the whole industry is being impacted by rising costs, not specific to Dell PowerStore. This is a challenge that we all need to handle.

I have around five to six installations.

Dell advertises that deployment can be done within 30 minutes, and customer feedback and professional service feedback confirm this is true. A single deployment job can be done by one person, though physical ground mounting might require assistance. Once deployed, there is no need to invest extra time in extensive fine-tuning. I have firsthand experience from colleagues confirming that deployment was easy. Once it is set up, the system is usually fully functional, though further management is always an option if desired.

Dell PowerStore has one of the most renowned and strongest supply chains. When customers place an order, Dell can keep their promise and deliver the required product within 14 days under normal circumstances. This is quite remarkable, especially today. For example, if a customer recently acquired many smaller companies or needs to handle a huge amount of change, their current existing capacity may not fulfill business requirements or growth. How can you ensure your storage or infrastructure provider can offer 200% or even ten times more capacity within two weeks? Other than cloud solutions where customers can enable additional storage from cloud providers, on-premises hardware providers like Dell can deliver such level of readiness. In comparison, other vendors like Lenovo, HP, and Supermicro usually have longer lead times of 30 days or more, sometimes reaching 60 days. I would rate Dell PowerStore a nine out of ten.

Dell PowerStore serves as our virtualization platform disk. We use it to create testing environments using the same VM template, which reduces actual disk usage significantly.

The platform is rather easy to use and there is a good documentation. The compression ratio is more than 10. We are using the compression and deduplication technologies. Although it is quite early to say, my assumption is that Dell PowerStore will help with operational efficiency. Even though it is early, I still notice some improvements.

I have not found any issues currently, and I am unsure what could be better. There is an issue related to the way other operating systems handle compressed volumes, but that is something Dell cannot influence. Scalability is probably not yet a concern in our case.

I started at the end of last year.

It is very stable with our short experience.

Scalability is probably not yet a concern in our case.

I only used installation support. That support was very good and helpful.

In the past, we have been using local disks on our servers.

It was quite easy to deploy. We kind of deployed it before we had the installation help agreed with Dell.

I only used installation support, and that was very good and helpful.

I may see ROI in the future, but so far, I do not see any savings.

The pricing was useful for what we got.

I do not remember which product it was but main driver was pricing on longer run.

Since December, we have been using a single Dell PowerStore 1200T appliance, which has impressed us with its compression ratio.  We prefer this on-premises solution over cloud due to high network costs. This review has an overall rating of 9 out of 10.

The primary use cases of Dell PowerStore in my organization are normal use cases, like any other organization for consolidating workloads and high-performance storage, particularly database workloads. We are serving and hosting the corporate services for the organization, so all internal employees will be using these services. Almost everybody is touched; 30,000 to 35,000 users are impacted by this Dell storage in some way or another.

The impact on my organization in terms of performance and operational efficiency is satisfactory. Technical support is available; from the Dell point of view, we have taken the Pro Support part, which provides 24/7 coverage. Whatever cases I have seen, the resolution and all have been completed by the assigned engineers.

There is still some room for improvement when it comes to response time. Dell PowerStore is acceptable; based on how we have configured it, some performance tuning is required, so we are working with Dell in that respect if any augmentation or anything is required. Some performance tuning will definitely help us, but as of now, it is working satisfactorily.

Additional features are definitely required, such as what has been done in other counterparts like IBM, including agentic AI and creating the LUNs and daily tasks through the AI part. AI capabilities are required for the storage box itself.

Dell PowerStore has been recently introduced, within one or two years.

From an installation point of view, it is straightforward.

We have taken the specs in such a way that it is scalable to what we desire, and I have not had any problems with scalability.

Technical support is available; from the Dell point of view, we have taken the Pro Support part, which provides 24/7 coverage. Whatever cases I have seen, the resolution and all have been completed by the assigned engineers.

Dell PowerStore has come from a competitive channel, meaning there are other competitors to it, such as HP and NetApp.

I deployed it through a partner, a third-party partner.

I am the customer, and it has been given to the partner via a tendering process. My front end is the partner.

We are working with Dell on performance tuning, and some performance tuning will definitely help us. The product is overall acceptable; there is always a scope for improvement, so I would rate it an eight out of ten. I think the upgrade for this box is all covered in the contract, maybe. I will have to check; specifically, if anything is there for data life cycle, I am not aware. I am using Dell PowerStore CSI drivers and all things to connect to Kubernetes. These are not a benefit; these are all enabled with our all-flash NVMe box, so integrations are a little bit acceptable. Performance tuning is the thing we need to update and see how it works for the larger workload. My overall rating for Dell PowerStore is eight.

I use Dell PowerStore for block storage and also have some shares on it.

We decided to cluster these because we need more capacity, as we are managing petabyte-scale storage. In order to have this capacity, clustering is necessary.

We can consolidate to minimize the workload storage space. We work with it to make it a consolidated storage solution and remove unused and useless data.

Let me give you an example. We have multiple sites and our storage in one site is replicated to another site. We faced an issue with a cluster before in the virtual machines and started the VM on another site.

Dell PowerStore is easy for implementation and for day-to-day operation. It is very good for day-to-day operations, LUN mounting, and everything.

Dell PowerStore is very good storage that is highly available, and we are managing very high workloads with multiple I/Os, so it fits our organization perfectly. It works well with our organization.

Dell PowerStore is very stable. All storage from Dell is very stable compared to other vendors.

The networking of Dell PowerStore needs to be enhanced. Previously, Unity only had storage without any connectivity to network. Dell did not work with switches integrated with storage before, but now they are providing network switches and TCP/IP connectivity.

The iSCSI features of Dell PowerStore need to be enhanced. Perhaps we do not need to rely on SAN switches anymore. We need TCP/IP switches with high utilization and high bandwidth.

I have used Dell PowerStore for five years.

Dell PowerStore is very stable. All storage from Dell is very stable compared to other vendors.

Dell PowerStore is very scalable. We can expand, and we have already expanded our storage multiple times. It is expandable.

The support for Dell PowerStore is very good and available 24x7. When we open a ticket, they chat with us at the same time and join the session with us. They can join a session any time with the support, which is helpful.

I have worked with Isilon, PowerStore, and Data Domain PowerProtect, all Dell technologies.

We work with Dell PowerStore and it is very good.

It is very easy to manage and makes the lifecycle easy, managing everything from one portal.

We implemented it ourselves.

All business needs for RPO and RTO are being met to minimize them.

We have NetApp and also storage from HP 3PAR.

Dell PowerStore is easier to manage than NetApp. Dell is easy to manage for administration, easy to administer, and easy to solve issues. The support is very good. Everything about Dell makes it easy to support customers.

Clustering is recommended for cluster storage.

Cluster storage is a very good program to upgrade our environment, to make all systems the same version, and to close any vulnerability at the storage level.

We upgrade to any new release from Dell. We currently have the latest release.

We are working with all these solutions. We have clusters for Kubernetes and Tanzu, virtual machines, and also OpenShift. We utilize Dell PowerStore storage for everything.

It is straightforward for Dell PowerStore and also for RecoverPoint for Data Domain, but I think for another storage it was difficult.

If all workload is VM-based, Dell PowerStore can be chosen because it is easy to manage.

I would rate this review an eight out of ten.

Dell PowerStore is used for first-line archiving and GDPR-related issues. It offers seamless integration with SQL Server and Oracle, aiding in quick access during GDPR issues.

Dell PowerStore plays a role in clustering multiple appliances and helps in optimizing workloads, despite requiring some planning and workarounds.

The biggest advantage of Dell PowerStore is the quick access provided during GDPR issues. The system also aids in first-line archiving and integrates well with SQL Server and Oracle.

The cybersecurity features and data resiliency of Dell PowerStore are strong, confirmed by a white-hat hacking test.

Additionally, compression and encryption provide enhanced security for our use cases.

The management interface of Dell PowerStore could be simplified, as it can be challenging to find issues amidst various screens. Introducing AI could help with identifying critical issues or deadlocks faster.

Currently, we foresee no other areas for improvement but acknowledge this might change as deployment progresses.

I have been dealing with the product for about a year and a half, closer to two years.

Currently, we don't have any unplanned glitches with Dell PowerStore. We had a few maintenance issues, which were planned and have been resolved.

Dell PowerStore is relatively easy to expand in terms of scalability. We haven't encountered any major scalability problems as our setup is quite large.

Technical support from Dell is quite good. I would rate Dell's support an 8.5. We had some minor issues, but the server-side support was excellent with a rating of 10, although there was some trouble with other parts.

My experience with the deployment procedure is that it was quite straightforward.

We used a local integrator for deployment, and all the rest was done in-house. The local integrator was CGK.

In terms of performance and operational efficiency, Dell PowerStore hasn't shown a noticeable ROI yet, as it is still being rolled out. However, it does save us close to 11% cost savings.

Regarding the pricing of Dell PowerStore, it is still quite pricey but we did get a good deal when bundled with workstations.

Most of our in-house development minimizes reliance on external SQL products. Additionally, we are evaluating Dell AI Ops and may consider it in the next budget cycle.

Lifecycle updates are well-managed in coordination with support staff. Dell PowerStore's built-in integrations are smooth, albeit with minor glitches.

Capacity expansion in single drive increments hasn't been a concern yet. I would rate this review a 9.