EMC VNX (Discontinued)

Score7 out of 10

24 Reviews and Ratings

Reviews

3 Reviews

EMC VNX: Great while it lasted

Rating: 2 out of 10

Incentivized

March 3, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

EMC VNX is one of the primary storage arrays that is used across the whole organization. It provides the storage platform that all corporate servers are running on.

Pros

Stable platform.
Good support.

Cons

It occupies a large floor space in the data center.
Unisphere management interface uses Java, which is problematic to run.

Likelihood to Recommend

With the VNX being EOL and the emergence of EMC Unity, I would suggest using EMC Unity instead.

Sam Majam

Systems Administrator in Information Technology at TBC Corporation (10,001+ employees)

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10 years of experience

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A reliable storage system for medium to large organizations

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

November 2, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The EMC VNX is the main storage system used by the whole organization but managed exclusively by the IT department. It mainly hosts the VMware servers and Unix Servers. The Unity feature allowed us to configure CIFS NAS storage for file sharing too. The EMC VNX has an auto-tiering feature which solved the delay problem we had in older storage systems. It has the ability to scale up and out.

Pros

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

Cons

Much slower compared to all-flash systems
Navigation in the web interface is not smooth
CIFS NAS is not easy to integrate with active directory

Likelihood to Recommend

EMC VNX is suited for VMware environment as it integrates with vCenter.
Integrates well with SolarWinds storage monitoring software.
It is well suited for enterprise-level organizations with 100+ servers.
It is not suited for small businesses as it requires specialized administrators and has relatively high license cost.
It is not suited for businesses that host most of their servers on the cloud.

Timothy Sawah

Lead Systems Engineer in Information Technology at The George Washington University (1001-5000 employees)

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5 years of experience

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My take on EMC VNX

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

September 27, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our VNX is our primary SAN storage. It has been a very reliable and solid storage solution.

Pros

VNX has had very solid uptime. Over the course of the last 5 years, we have had very little if any downtime.
We have also used it for our home directories, and with the data dedupe on the file side it has saved us a lot of space.
Adding additional drive space has also been really easy.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Ryan Andrus

Network Services Manager in Information Technology at Davis County Government (1001-5000 employees)

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5 years of experience

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