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Dell PowerStore pros and cons

Vendor: Dell Technologies

4.4 out of 5

154 reviews
96% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Dell PowerStore offers scalability, flexibility, and high performance with NVMe storage, optimizing data access. It integrates with VMware, simplifying management, and utilizes compression and deduplication to reduce costs. However, improvements are needed in enterprise feature integration, VMware alignment, and setup processes. Technical support faces criticism for inadequate assistance, and the high cost compared to competitors may deter cost-sensitive buyers despite the notable return on investment.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Dell PowerStore offers exceptional scalability and flexibility, allowing for independent scaling of compute and capacity.

The platform integrates well with VMware environments, making deployment and management seamless.

It provides high performance with NVMe storage, ensuring fast data access and minimal latency.

Compression and deduplication technologies in Dell PowerStore significantly reduce storage requirements and costs.

Dell PowerStore's cost-efficiency and return on investment are highly valued, offering competitive pricing and notable savings.

CONS

Dell PowerStore requires improvements in integrating enterprise features like replication across multiple sites.

There is a need for better alignment with VMware, as using two versions of VMware ESXi is currently necessary to keep the system operational.

The setup process could be improved as the current configuration process is time-consuming and complex.

Technical support has been criticized for not providing adequate assistance and being slow to respond.

The cost of Dell PowerStore is high compared to competitors, making it less attractive to cost-sensitive buyers.

Dell PowerStore Pros review quotes

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Maurizio Davini

CTO at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 5, 2021

Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use.

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DR

Founder and CEO at Desktoptowork

Mar 10, 2021

The way you're able to manage all your PowerStores as one solution is very good for us. PowerStore enables you to federate or cluster multiple appliances with automated load balancing. In terms of management, it's helpful that we can do it from a single interface where we're able to manage multiple PowerStores. When you have multiple PowerStores it works intelligently by running the workloads based on the needs of the infrastructure.

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reviewer1528422

Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 10, 2021

You can add compute and capacity independently. We have sized the solution based on our current needs, but in the future we can choose to increase capacity if we grow our activity in the market. And if we have more business in our monetary system, we can increase compute. The ability to choose what we increase is a good feature.

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reviewer1704309

IT Administrator at a construction company with 201-500 employees

Oct 28, 2021

For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance.

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Niwat Srinamngern

Solutions Architect/ Consultant at IVT

Nov 4, 2021

Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore.

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PK

Storage Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 10, 2021

PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes.

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reviewer1648785

Technical Support Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 15, 2021

I like the performance of the PowerStore. When you talk about PowerStore, it's mainly about flash systems and high-end IOPS. The 1000T is a midsize box, in terms of the way the vendor positions it, but it is more than enough for our needs.

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Jacques DUVERNOIS

Technical Team Leader for Servers and Storage at Orange

Apr 25, 2022

The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use this frame. I am a SAN administrator, but I was able to train my colleague, who had only been a VMware administrator, on the PowerStore in about half a day. Now he's autonomous in assigning volumes and creating data stores...

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Associate Director, Systems & Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

May 3, 2022

The simplicity and ease of use have been very valuable features. I have a very small team, and only half of the team is well versed in the HP product. Whereas if I bring PowerStore in, everyone can learn it because it will be new on the floor.

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reviewer1852080

Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 4, 2022

This solution is very useful to us as we use it internally for all of the services that we need. We use it as a lab and we showcase new technology to the customers and how it can help them going forward.

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Dell PowerStore Cons review quotes

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Maurizio Davini

CTO at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 5, 2021

Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster.

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DR

Founder and CEO at Desktoptowork

Mar 10, 2021

The setup process could be improved. We had some issues regarding configuration and the time it took to do things. It wasn't specifically the people we worked with, but more the process and how it's done. They can work on that.

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reviewer1528422

Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 10, 2021

The only area I can highlight for improvement is that the 4:1 data reduction target has not been reached. This may be due to an issue with Dell EMC's initial analysis of data compression. As a result, we have had to add new physical disks to reach our goal of total available disk space.

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reviewer1704309

IT Administrator at a construction company with 201-500 employees

Oct 28, 2021

The upgrades themselves are running fine, but after the upgrade is when we have a problem. With the update to 1.4, we had a head crash. They told us, 'This is a known issue. Please upgrade to 2.' We upgraded to 2 and, one week later they told us, 'Yeah, there are some issues in 2.0.0. You can lose data. Please upgrade to 2.0.1.' Overall, they need to make the system stable.

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Niwat Srinamngern

Solutions Architect/ Consultant at IVT

Nov 4, 2021

There is no Synchronize replication feature on the storage.

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PK

Storage Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 10, 2021

The price is on the higher side.

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reviewer1648785

Technical Support Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 15, 2021

During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us.

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Jacques DUVERNOIS

Technical Team Leader for Servers and Storage at Orange

Apr 25, 2022

The NAS part is very poor. It's very basic. Even Dell EMC has said that to us. We are waiting for version 3 of PowerStore for that. This must be improved and it is in the roadmap.

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Associate Director, Systems & Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

May 3, 2022

Reporting is an area that could be improved. It's very simplistic sometimes, and some of the very technical guys on my team want to see more of the details and be able to massage the report a little bit better.

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reviewer1852080

Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 4, 2022

I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in.

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