Dell PowerPath Reviews

Name: Dell PowerPath
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4 (8 reviews)

4.2 out of 5

8 reviews
100% willing to recommend

253 followers

What is Dell PowerPath?

EMC PowerPath: Host-based software for automated data path management, failover and recovery, and optimized load balancing. PowerPath automates, standardizes, and optimizes data paths in physical and virtual environments as well as cloud deployments to deliver high availability and performance.

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Dell PowerPath is the #3 ranked solution in top Storage Software solutions. PeerSpot users give Dell PowerPath an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Dell PowerPath is most commonly compared to Pure Storage FlashArray: Dell PowerPath vs Pure Storage FlashArray. Dell PowerPath is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 63% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 11% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Derrick Brockel

Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution for load balancing our database and I/Os. It works well with EMC storage The solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy. It is a smart solution. If we bring down an array, it would queue the I/Os. It provides resilience and availability. It performs…

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Vaidyanathan Swaminathan

Co-Founder at Tech RIdge Solutions

Dell PowerPath is a one-stop solution that one can get from Dell EMC. Dell PowerPath is a very good solution that can be deployed easily. Support and everything is easy to get with Dell PowerPath. My company uses Dell PowerPath to avoid being dependent on multiple vendors for the solution. We get…

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Abdul Qureshi

Manager Systems and Data Center at Central Depository Company of Pakistan

I use the solution for backup The product is very reliable. It works fine whenever we try to restore the backup. The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures. It must allow us to perform backups for Linux VMs. I have been using the solution for the last six…

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Dell PowerPath mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Dell PowerPath in the Storage Software category stands at 23.3%, down from 25.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy."
"The product is very reliable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that disaster recovery scenarios are very good and easy to use in Dell PowerPath since it is available in a simplified form."

Room for Improvement

"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."
"The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

Pricing

"The product is a little bit expensive."
"The solution is expensive."
"I rate the product's price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable, and ten is really expensive. Dell PowerPath is an expensive tool."

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

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Healthcare Company

10%

Retailer

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

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Learn more about Dell PowerPath

AUTOMATE FAILOVER/RECOVERY

PowerPath automates data path failover and recovery to ensure applications are always available and remain operational.

OPTIMIZE LOAD BALANCING

Adjust I/O paths constantly to leverage all available data paths and to monitor and rebalance the dynamic environment for the best application performance.

STANDARDIZE PATH MANAGEMENT

Simplify and standardize data path management across heterogeneous physical and virtual environments as well as cloud deployments.

Dell PowerPath was previously known as PowerPath.