Dell PowerVault Reviews

Name: Dell PowerVault
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4.2 (23 reviews)

Vendor: Dell Technologies

4.2 out of 5

23 reviews
100% willing to recommend

819 followers

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What is Dell PowerVault?

PowerVault MD3 storage arrays help you cost-effectively address the challenges of data growth with versatile solutions that are optimized for smaller-scale storage consolidation, flexible virtualization projects and high business continuity.

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Dell PowerVault is the #1 ranked solution in top Fibre Channel solutions and #2 ranked solution in top Enterprise SAN solutions. PeerSpot users give Dell PowerVault an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Dell PowerVault is most commonly compared to Dell PowerStore: Dell PowerVault vs Dell PowerStore. Dell PowerVault is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 55% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 16% of all views.

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Featured Dell PowerVault reviews

SigfridCecillon

Director at Arsium

You can extend your library. You can add some disks. But you have to rebuild your environment, so it's not very easy. And you can add some other libraries. You can add some cables to extend it, but it's not very easy to do. So it isn't very easy because the technique used to do that is not very easy. You have to work strictly to rebuild all the alignment. So, maybe this is an area of improvement. There are around 10 to 15 customers using this solution.

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Md. Hamidul Haque Razu

Technical Support Manager at Genex Infosys Ltd.

We have been utilizing Dell PowerVault mainly as a backup solution, for data storage and file-sharing purposes Dell PowerVault is a reliable solution that offers good performance and affordability. I find this solution to be cost-effective in providing data storage for clients. There have been…

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Sebastien Chene

Senior Business Development Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use Dell PowerVault for the storage consolidation of SMBs. Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage. The product is generally stable, but there have been instances, to my knowledge, where we faced issues in the controller during software upgrades. The availability is not at the…

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Dell PowerVault mindshare

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As of March 2025, the mindshare of Dell PowerVault in the Enterprise SAN category stands at 28.0%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise SAN

PeerAnalyst reports based on Dell PowerVault reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Enterprise SAN	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Dell PowerVault vs Dell PowerStore	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	Dell PowerVault vs Cisco MDS Series	Mar 4, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Dell PowerStore	4.3	29.0%	96%	80 interviews Add to research
Cisco MDS Series	4.6	9.3%	80%	9 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage."
"It is an inexpensive storage solution."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

Room for Improvement

"The product is generally stable, but there have been instances, to my knowledge, where we faced issues in the controller during software upgrades. The availability is not at the desired level during these upgrade processes, as we sometimes need to shut down both controllers. This could be an area for improvement."
"The product could support an NVMe hard disk."
"The high prices of the solution are an area of concern where improvements are required."

Pricing

"I rate the solution's pricing a seven to eight out of ten."
"The product is inexpensive."
"I rate the product price a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high."

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

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