Some of the products are very easy to implement, while others are more difficult, and our team seeks support help when required. Regarding the integration part, the delivery team handles all integration-related matters.
Information Technology Service Delivery Manager at Sat Microsystem
Real User
Jul 18, 2023
Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure. Any EMX product, be it PowerMax, VMAX, or DMAX, works based on the CLI. A person has to be very good at running the solution through commands. Even if you memorize the commands, some don't work with a few software versions EMC releases yearly, which is difficult to manage. From the data center perspective, installing drives is not easy. Those involve a lot of costs because you need to purchase many licenses. Additionally, we still face administrative issues if a password expires, and we need to manage anything.
Sr. Storage And Backup Engineer at OMNIdata Trading, Lda.
Real User
Feb 14, 2023
Dell VPLEX currently requires Flash Player to access the GUI. It would be better to have a web-based HTML management interface. The encryption could also be improved. When the host writes data, it goes from VPLEX back to the physical storage. The physical storage device will do encryption or use an algorithm called Data Address Encryption. If there are vulnerabilities between the host and the storage device, you can lose your data. I suggest encrypting the data before it is sent from the host to the storage. I would also recommend using the NVM protocol in VPLEX. It still has Flash Player and a local SATA disk built into the Flash Player. You need to Flash the disk to SAS and then SATA. The NVM protocol is better.
Expert Stockage at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Mar 24, 2021
With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom and old SAN fabrics. VPLEX is currently on Fiber Channel. The future is ethernet, not Fiber Channel.
Governor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jul 8, 2020
The administration is difficult, so we want to add hyper-converged infrastructure. I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications. This is something that is available in other products and it would make new sites very easy and fast to set up.
Dell VPLEX enhances storage management by offering virtualization, seamless data migration, and data center mirroring, making it ideal for enterprise applications needing high availability and data security.Dell VPLEX stands out with its ability to integrate with multiple storage back-end systems, providing transparent data movement and deduplication. Its metro and geo-clustering capabilities ensure high availability, making it suitable for enterprise applications requiring maximum uptime....
Some of the products are very easy to implement, while others are more difficult, and our team seeks support help when required. Regarding the integration part, the delivery team handles all integration-related matters.
Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure. Any EMX product, be it PowerMax, VMAX, or DMAX, works based on the CLI. A person has to be very good at running the solution through commands. Even if you memorize the commands, some don't work with a few software versions EMC releases yearly, which is difficult to manage. From the data center perspective, installing drives is not easy. Those involve a lot of costs because you need to purchase many licenses. Additionally, we still face administrative issues if a password expires, and we need to manage anything.
There are sometimes delays in getting performance reports. It would be great if VPLEX could be integrated with the cloud.
Dell VPLEX currently requires Flash Player to access the GUI. It would be better to have a web-based HTML management interface. The encryption could also be improved. When the host writes data, it goes from VPLEX back to the physical storage. The physical storage device will do encryption or use an algorithm called Data Address Encryption. If there are vulnerabilities between the host and the storage device, you can lose your data. I suggest encrypting the data before it is sent from the host to the storage. I would also recommend using the NVM protocol in VPLEX. It still has Flash Player and a local SATA disk built into the Flash Player. You need to Flash the disk to SAS and then SATA. The NVM protocol is better.
With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom and old SAN fabrics. VPLEX is currently on Fiber Channel. The future is ethernet, not Fiber Channel.
The administration is difficult, so we want to add hyper-converged infrastructure. I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications. This is something that is available in other products and it would make new sites very easy and fast to set up.