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Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) pros and cons

3.7 out of 5
 

Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) Pros review quotes

Kazi Amranul Houqe - PeerSpot reviewer
First Assistant Vice President (FAVP) & Unit Head of Server & Storage Management Unit at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 28, 2025
Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) is most useful because it is easy to use and easy for provisioning on all hostings, proactively viewable to manage, and the storage controller information is given to the functional, all in a single dashboard.
Kazi Amranul Houqe - PeerSpot reviewer
First Assistant Vice President (FAVP) & Unit Head of Server & Storage Management Unit at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 2, 2023
It is easy to control the storage.
Naresh K - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Oct 7, 2022
The partitions function well for backup storage.
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reviewer1645866 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Global Infrastructure at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Aug 13, 2021
It's all about ease of use and reliability.
Anteneh Asnake - PeerSpot reviewer
Modern Data Center and Cloud Engineer II at IE Network Solutions PLC
Oct 21, 2020
It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection.
it_user114702 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 26, 2017
The most valuable features of either of the SRM tools were the reporting and real-time ability to show management that additional storage was required or who was using what storage and bandwidth.
it_user610434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrstructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Feb 16, 2017
Managing multiple storage arrays under one console was a valuable feature of this product.
BP
Senior Storage Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Feb 16, 2017
Ease of administration fits in well with all the EMC SAN storage.
GL
Responsabile Data Management DC Area Nord Ovest at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 12, 2017
The alerting feature is valuable because it completes the gap of storage monitoring.
 

Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) Cons review quotes

Kazi Amranul Houqe - PeerSpot reviewer
First Assistant Vice President (FAVP) & Unit Head of Server & Storage Management Unit at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 28, 2025
In my country, Dell has not ensured the replacement parts for critical components, which is very dangerous.
Kazi Amranul Houqe - PeerSpot reviewer
First Assistant Vice President (FAVP) & Unit Head of Server & Storage Management Unit at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 2, 2023
When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage.
Naresh K - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Oct 7, 2022
Technical support is inadequate.
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reviewer1645866 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Global Infrastructure at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Aug 13, 2021
Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades.
Anteneh Asnake - PeerSpot reviewer
Modern Data Center and Cloud Engineer II at IE Network Solutions PLC
Oct 21, 2020
The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved.
it_user114702 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 26, 2017
We were unhappy as no one from EMC heard our plea for assistance and it became expensive in terms of the license and the amount of resources it took.
it_user610434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrstructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Feb 16, 2017
To be frank, I believe there are many other applications that allow us to manage the array, along with in-depth analysis. Even EMC has developed better products than ECC.
BP
Senior Storage Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Feb 16, 2017
I would like to see third-party storage management.
GL
Responsabile Data Management DC Area Nord Ovest at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 12, 2017
The installation was complex because we had to setup multiple servers.