Dell Storage Resource Manager vs Dell VPLEX comparison

Dell Storage Resource Manager and Dell VPLEX are both solutions in the Storage Management category. Dell Storage Resource Manager is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0, while Dell VPLEX is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.3. Dell Storage Resource Manager holds a 6.2% mindshare in SM, compared to Dell VPLEX’s 8.2% mindshare. Additionally, 62% of Dell Storage Resource Manager users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Dell VPLEX users who would recommend it.

Dell Storage Resource Manager

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62% willing to recommend

Dell VPLEX

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Dell Storage Resource Manager and Dell VPLEX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Storage Resource Manager

Ranking in Storage Management

7th

Average Rating

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Dell VPLEX

Ranking in Storage Management

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Dell Storage Resource Manager is 6.2%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell VPLEX is 8.2%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Kazi Amranul Houqe

First Assistant Vice President (FAVP) & Unit Head of Server & Storage Management Unit at Jamuna Bank Limited

Jan 2, 2023

Great features that allow for supervision of storage, management of users and driver-related updates

There is block-based storage, and we have different pools in the storage. The flash SSD hard access used for the databases is the correctional-related data. We use a dedicated pool for the Oracle database, which is mounted with unique servers. We have another pool called sales drive, and we take…

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Sayed Zuber

Sr. Storage And Backup Engineer at OMNIdata Trading, Lda.

Feb 14, 2023

It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners

Dell VPLEX currently requires Flash Player to access the GUI. It would be better to have a web-based HTML management interface. The encryption could also be improved. When the host writes data, it goes from VPLEX back to the physical storage. The physical storage device will do encryption or use an algorithm called Data Address Encryption. If there are vulnerabilities between the host and the storage device, you can lose your data. I suggest encrypting the data before it is sent from the host to the storage. I would also recommend using the NVM protocol in VPLEX. It still has Flash Player and a local SATA disk built into the Flash Player. You need to Flash the disk to SAS and then SATA. The NVM protocol is better.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is easy to control the storage."

"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."

"It's all about ease of use and reliability."

"The partitions function well for backup storage."

"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."

"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."

"The solution works well. It's very reliable."

"The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility."

"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."

"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."

"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."

"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."

Cons

"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."

"Technical support is inadequate."

"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."

"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."

"There can be delays in getting performance reports."

"The initial setup is complex."

"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."

"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."

"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."

"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."

"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."

"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is mid-priced."

"There are no licensing costs for this product."

"VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."

"We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

22%

Government

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dell Storage Resource Manager?

It is easy to control the storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell Storage Resource Manager?

Because of the license costs, we selected the software bundle price with the storage boxes, so most of the software costs are bundled. So, there are no defined manager prices.

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What needs improvement with Dell Storage Resource Manager?

It needs to be segregated if you compare the EMC storage with HP and IBM. We have to identify the reliability of the fiber channel ports. If this can be improved, it will be better for the end-user...

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What do you like most about Dell VPLEX?

Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell VPLEX?

This is an enterprise solution so licensing costs are generally on the higher side. There will be additional costs if you want to do a network cluster for business servers.

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What needs improvement with Dell VPLEX?

Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure. Any EMX product, be it PowerMax, VMAX, or DMAX, works based on the CLI. A person has to be very good at runn...

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Also Known As

Dell EMC SRM, Dell EMC ViPR SRM, ViPR SRM, EMC ControlCenter, ECC, EMC ProSphere

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Overview

ViPR SRM is a software solution that provides multi-vendor capacity, performance, and configuration dashboards and reports for traditional and software-defined storage resources.

Wth EMC VPLEX you can deploy next-generation virtualization architecture to enable simultaneous information access within, between, and across data centers, move applications, virtual machines, and data in and between data centers without impacting users and deliver application and data availability within the data center and over distance with full infrastructure utilization and zero downtime.

Sample Customers

HNTB Corporation

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