Dell Unity XT Unified Storage vs. EMC VNX (Discontinued)

Dell EMC Unity is an easy system and very flexible component and very easy to navigate while providing effective services and management of multiple project information management and the data pulling from the supported third-party platform is easy and quick. Excellent reporting features and easy to use and the analytics tools are amazing.

Incentivized

If you are looking for a solid storage array that needs to give you continuous uptime, then VNX is a great solution.

Incentivized

• Dell EMC Unity has improved on the end user management experience over their older product suites.
• Dell EMC Unity once stood up is reliable and performs to expectations.
• Dell EMC Unity allows for small entry into the the product suite and can grow based on needs.

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• Auto- tiering, for faster access on blocks used most frequently
• Has both NAS and SAN ( unified system)
• Scale up ability
• Optimal for VMware
• Integrates with vCenter
• Easy monitoring and useful dashboards
• Relatively easy configure and management interface with safe delete

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• Alerting: receiving an alert when an issue occurs. That is good to know. However, if the alert is cleared, or somehow no longer in alarm, no email is received. At times I will receive the email alert on weekends, not knowing if the issue is resolved or not until Monday when I can access the unit. I have learned in most instances, the alert is a false alarm, which could be a problem.
• The alerting itself is sometimes not clear. For example, it tells me the link is down, we reset the connection, the link is still down, a tech was dispatched, he troubleshot, and finally the alarm cleared. This incident took almost a week. It went back into alarm after he left, then suddenly it cleared on its own.

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• The UI is very clunky and uses Java, which I am not a big fan of.
• It is difficult to see performance metrics or utilization. Tegile or Nimble provide a superior window into your performance and IOPS on LUNs and VMs.

Incentivized

Very cumbersome compared to other vendors in the same marketplace.

Incentivized

Not only support for Unity, but for any Dell product, whether for companies or for the end consumer. Support is agile, helpful, and always focused on solving the problem. To date, there has been no problem that Dell's support has failed to resolve and help us with.

Incentivized

I was instructed to buy these arrays, but I was not given the opportunity to evaluate other arrays. We evaluated other products in the market that competed with Unity and found that the younger array built from scratch had far better features, software, and ease of use. The Unity system has a unique way of storing the data when compared with other systems.

Incentivized

• Dell EMC Unity is the improved version of EMC VNX. It has all the features in VNX with better performance.
• NetApp all flash is faster and more expensive. It performs better with Citrix systems and VDI solutions.
• HP MSA storage system is less performant and less expensive. It works better for file and CCTV data storage.

Incentivized

• Less business downtime and reliability is a major business concern. DELL EMC UNITY addresses this concern well and provides robust storage.
• Investing in UNITY system is less expensive than all-flash storage systems.
• Managing and provisioning VMware disks became simpler from a single interface in the Vcenter

Incentivized

• Due to its stability, it is very rare to have downtime—meaning business operations are not interrupted from an infrastructure level.
• Support and maintenance can be expensive.

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