Dell VMAX vs. EMC VNX (Discontinued)

Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash Storage is a very powerful storage that easily manages huge data transactions with high IO processing speed. This Storage is well suited for critical production environments because response times are much better. This storage enables direct data backup. It's always up and running during updates because it creates a redundant connection from the controller.

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

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• Powerful storage
• Easy to set up and use all functions
• Great storage capacity
• Hybrid cloud solution
• Transparent recovery
• Once we set up and did configuration, no adjustments are required

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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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• Initial configuration are bit difficult need some experience resource to manage it.
• We faced issue with vendor support during major impact.

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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.

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The best part about this array is that once you have it configured it is pretty much done. There is little to no other configurations to be done other than normal volume adjustments. Support is great as they understand this array very well. The updates are very hands-off and are done solely by support. You contact them and then there are no other changes done on the end-user's side.

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The EMC array is a lot more robust, but the PURE array does almost the same with about a tenth of ease from the configuration. It really depends on the type of backend servers that you need to support as to whether you need a EMC array or a PURE array.

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• 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.

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• Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the hybrid cloud solution
• Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the great storage capacity with data security
• Data Migration from other storage, data compression, stability

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• 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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