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Storage Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of VNX [EOL]
Apr 18, 2018
​The VNX 5700 provides a large number of features including the ability to work for both file and block as a unified array.

Pros

"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data. "

Cons

"It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption."
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Senior SAN Engineer with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of VNX [EOL]
Mar 23, 2017
Product version discussed: 5500 and 5600
The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access.

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access."

Cons

"There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore. "
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Infrastructure Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of VNX [EOL]
Aug 14, 2017
It Was Ill-Equipped To Handle Our Environment Though Tiering Does Allow Dynamic Data Allocation Among Disk Types
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Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of VNX [EOL]
Jul 6, 2017
It is very stable even during multiple power failures.

Pros

"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."

Cons

"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this. "
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Network Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of VNX [EOL]
Mar 23, 2017
Can combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool.

Pros

"One of the best features of the VNX is the ability to combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool. By combining small but fast flash drives, SAS drives, and high-capacity but slower NL-SAS drives, the VNX can intelligently move data to the different tiers of storage based on usage. "

Cons

"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software. "
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VMware and Storage Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of VNX [EOL]
May 18, 2017
Product version discussed: EMC VNX 7500 and 7600
I value deduplication and compression to save space. The CLI could be better documented.

Pros

"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."

Cons

"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
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Senior System Administrator – Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of VNX [EOL]
Mar 22, 2017
Archives data to be placed in NL-SAS disks where IOPS is not in demand.

Pros

"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."

Cons

"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
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Technical Sales Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Verified user of VNX [EOL]
    May 23, 2017
    Integration with VMware is valuable, due to the migration from bare metal to virtualized environments and then on to the cloud.

    Pros

    "The most valuable feature is the tight VMware integration, due to the migration from bare metal to virtualized environments and then on to the cloud. "