VNX [EOL] pros and cons

Name: VNX [EOL]
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4.0 (36 reviews)

Vendor: Dell Technologies

4.0 out of 5

36 reviews
87% willing to recommend

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VNX [EOL] Pros review quotes

it_user519738

Senior System Administrator Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 16, 2017

It is very stable, even during multiple power failures.

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it_user81207

Network Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 17, 2017

One of the best features of the VNX is the ability to combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool. By combining small but fast flash drives, SAS drives, and high-capacity but slower NL-SAS drives, the VNX can intelligently move data to the different tiers of storage based on usage.

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it_user127905

Senior SAN Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 21, 2017

The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access.

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it_user637818

Director de Explotación IT. COE. at a security firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 30, 2017

Good performance for VM environments

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it_user637824

Tech Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 30, 2017

FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself.

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it_user417420

IT Infrastructure and Operations Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 30, 2017

High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows.

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it_user647445

VMware and Storage Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 15, 2017

I really value deduplication and compression to save space.

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RESC

Storage Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 18, 2018

The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data.

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it_user478692

IT Officer - Hardare & Software

Jul 5, 2017

Integration with VMware

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it_user697029

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jul 5, 2017

It is very stable even during multiple power failures.

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VNX [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user519738

Senior System Administrator Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 16, 2017

EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this.

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it_user81207

Network Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 17, 2017

The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software.

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it_user127905

Senior SAN Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 21, 2017

There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore.

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it_user637818

Director de Explotación IT. COE. at a security firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 30, 2017

There is an easy replication process between distinct data centers via VPLEX and/or RPA. But I hope in the future that EMC/Dell could replicate this with other types of storage.

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it_user637824

Tech Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 30, 2017

Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones.

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it_user417420

IT Infrastructure and Operations Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 30, 2017

Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing.

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it_user647445

VMware and Storage Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 15, 2017

The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX.

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RESC

Storage Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 18, 2018

It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption.

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it_user478692

IT Officer - Hardare & Software

Jul 5, 2017

Poor connection to FC.

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it_user697029

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jul 5, 2017

EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this.

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