Dell PowerFlex Reviews

Name: Dell PowerFlex
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4 (25 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

25 reviews
96% willing to recommend

1,733 followers

What is Dell PowerFlex?

VxRack System consists of hyper-converged rack-scale engineered systems, with integrated networking, to achieve the scalability and management requirements of traditional and cloud native workloads. The VxRack series is purposely designed to enable customers to quickly deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and/or Private Cloud architectures. VxRack Systems tightly integrate hardware with software and management layers.

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Dell PowerFlex is the #5 ranked solution in HCI Software. PeerSpot users give Dell PowerFlex an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Dell PowerFlex is most commonly compared to VMware vSAN: Dell PowerFlex vs VMware vSAN. Dell PowerFlex is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 15% of all views.

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Ayodeji Oyewole

Managing Director at Atlantic factorial

Dell PowerFlex is used for on-prem cloud solutions. It's a hyper-converged infrastructure, which means you can integrate it directly into your core network. You get all the computing and storage you need without bothering much about the network connection between the servers because all that comes…

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Scott Yoshimura

Lead Technical Product Manager at United Services Automobile Association

We use this solution to manage software-defined infrastructure and for rapid provisioning of computer storage The API catalog helps us use Ansible automation. We still have to build custom providers for PowerFlex Manager to use Ansible, but what we developed has enabled us to provision computer…

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Syed Fasih

BU Head Cloud, Computing, Storage & DP at Abdulla Fouad Group

Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also…

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Dell PowerFlex mindshare

As of October 2024, the mindshare of Dell PowerFlex in the HCI category stands at 12.1%, up from 7.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Aug 13, 2024

Valuable Features

"Dell PowerFlex is a highly scalable solution."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the storage space it offers."
"The tool's most valuable features are its price and flexibility. It has high performance."

Room for Improvement

"The solution’s automation and pricing could be improved."
"The tool is a bit difficult to configure, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The tool needs to improve its storage. It should also make migration to the cloud easier."

Pricing

"The solution's pricing could be much cheaper and affordable."
"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the price as eight and a half. The tool is expensive."
"I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

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Learn more about Dell PowerFlex

The result is a fully tested, pre-configured, hyper-converged system with simplified operations at data center and Service Provider scale. VxRack Systems support the deployment of a variety of application workloads, allowing IT to rapidly deliver new services while improving overall agility and efficiency.

Dell PowerFlex was previously known as VxFlex, VxRack FLEX, PowerFlex.

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Dell PowerFlex customers

Canopy, 8x8Inc., Atos, Canadian Pacific, City of Denton, CenturyLink, BNP Paribas, Asyaport, EDF, CSC, Fox Sports, Insight, Hunter, KPIT, Paetec, Rosetta Stone, Sonda, Xerox