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Dell VPLEX

Score9 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

What is Dell VPLEX?

Dell VPLEX aims to maximize the returns on investments in all-flash infrastructure or hybrid arrays by providing continuous availability to business-critical workloads. VPLEX also creates a flexible storage architecture designed to gives IT teams the agility they need to respond to rapid business and technology changes while maximizing asset utilization across active-active datacenters.

Categories & Use Cases

VPLEX for HA and FO

Pros

  • High Availability
  • Fail Over
  • Business continuity

Cons

  • Requires high bandwidth low latency connectivity between sites.
  • Cost wise it is expensive because you have to purchase with a mirror in mind.
  • Configuration can be difficult.

Return on Investment

  • Reduced down time.
  • Provides business continuity.
  • Reduces single point of failure on the SAN.

Other Software Used

EMC VNX, VMware ESXi, Cisco UCS B-Series, Cisco UCS C-Series