Dell PowerVault Reviews

We are a solution provider and Dell EMC PowerVault is one of the products that we implement for our customers. The primary use is high available solutions, such as Hyper-V clusters or VMware clusters.

The most valuable features are stability and response time. Every time I need to use this product, I get a timely response.

I would like to see improvements made to the user interface.

We have been using Dell EMC PowerVault for approximately ten years.

I like Dell as a brand because the products are stable.

I don't usually have the need to contact technical support. I do remember one incident between six and eight years ago where they and Symantec together provided support for a problem. It was a Dell PowerVault TL2000 and Backup Exec from Symantec (now known as Veritas Backup Exec).

When it comes to supporting our customers, they contact us. I like this because the customers are close to me and we can work on the problem ourselves.

The initial setup is straightforward.

We provide this to our customers as a complete solution. We implement the product and then we support them after the implementation is complete.

I think that it's the right price for this type of equipment. It is important to remember that the retail price may seem high, but the final price is usually different.

We are not using the most current version, so I am not fully aware of what the current features are. As such, at the moment, I cannot recommend it one way or another to people. That said, in my experience with the version that I am using, I definitely recommend it.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

On-premises

We are using Dell PowerVault for backups.

The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its performance.

The price of the solution could be lower. 

I have been using Dell PowerVault for approximately 10 years.

The stability of Dell PowerVault has been great.

We have approximately 3,000 users using this solution and two administrators.

The support from Dell is very good.

The initial setup of Dell PowerStrore was simple and took approximately one day.

We used the vendor for the implementation along with two of our employees.

The price of Dell PowerVault could be reduced. It is more expensive than some IBM solutions.

We are replacing this solution with Dell PowerStore.

I rate Dell PowerVault a nine out of ten.

We are a hospital in Jordan, I'm the IT director and we are end users of this solution. 

We have this solution running almost all the time and it's very reliable and stable.

I'll need to replace Dell soon because it's almost obsolete and considered old technology. If I continued using it, I'd need to increase its capacity. We need higher performance and more reliable storage. It's considered an expensive solution in Jordan, it would be better if the price could be reduced. 

I've been using this solution for nearly eight years. 

This solution is stable and scalable but it's fallen behind our needs.  

We had some performance issues after our initial setup and they managed to resolve all the problems. I haven't needed to contact support since then. 

The initial setup is not that straightforward. It involves SAN switches and some setup procedure that are a little complex.

Licensing fees are expensive - whether that's specifically in Jordan, I'm not sure.

If this solution is within your means as a storage option then I would recommend it.

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

On-premises

Extending volume sizes.

It allows on demand without disruption to growing the size of a volume which then in turn allows a system to see more disk capacity previously this required downtime and had to be schedule out of hours.

Better monitoring / event logs and firmware upgrade process.

2 years.

No the San was fairly easy to install and the documentation is good.

Only once when the storage array seem to be very slow and caused VMware Hosts to not see the volumes.

Not yet, as this was for a small virtualisation environment of 20 servers and 100 desktops.

Customer Service:

Very good general Dell Storage support is very responsive.

Technical Support:

Technical knowledge was good.

EMC AX3, due to high hardware and maintenance costs Dell was selected.

Was easy to setup.

Vendor team, Ultima Business Solutions.

1 year.

Setup cost was £30k hard to determine day to day costs.

Dell EqualLogic was reviewed but deemed too expensive for the use case.

Understand that this is a entry level storage array and has limited scalability perhaps below 100 server environments.

We use the solution for internal and external ERP.

I like the tool's CloudIQ feature.

If the solution came with a synchronous application, it would be particularly advantageous for small businesses operating across multiple sites.

We have been using the solution since the early 2000s.

The solution is stable. I rate it a ten on ten.

The solution is scalable. I rate it a ten on ten.

We haven't used technical support for assistance. It has been running smoothly for several years now.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The solution is more cost-effective than the competitors. It’s an affordable option for small businesses.

Overall, I rate Dell PowerVault a ten on ten.

On-premises

My primary uses are virtualization and general-purpose workloads.

The features I've found most valuable are replication and tiered storage.

PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud.

I have been using this solution for a year.

PowerVault is stable.

Dell's technical support is excellent.

The initial setup was easy and simple.

PowerVault is an entry-level model for customers needing their first storage solution. I would rate this solution as ten out of ten. 

On-premises

A highly reliable RAID system with durable high speed hard disk drives. The OS can be flashed on to a SD card thereby giving you more space for storage. I've found that the enterprise support from Dell Customer Care is excellent.

No LCD panel for viewing status on-board.

My Company has huge data requirements for which I bought this Dell Powervault NX 3200 with 10 TB storage. It was selected due to very impressive IOPS performance and has proven itself. In my company there are more than 100 users connecting to this server simultaneously and still the I/O operations are very smooth. Dell-IDRAC provides a nice way to manage and monitor its performance.