Dell PowerVault Reviews

Name: Dell PowerVault
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4 (23 reviews)

Vendor: Dell Technologies

4.2 out of 5

23 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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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 #4 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 54% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 17% of all views.

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Featured reviews

SigfridCecillon

Director at Arsium

We choose Power Vault when we need some basic storage, which would be deployed just behind the data call, for example, or just directly attached to a server. So it's regularly, it's not for a functional library. It's all basis needed process rate We like the simplicity of the environment and the…

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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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Marc Gaethofs

ICT manager at Thys Bouwprojecten

The solution is suited for small companies. It has a simple setup. If you want to virtualize something, then you buy two hosts The solution is stable. It is a simple and better vault solution than Synology. Many features are coming up for Dell PowerVault. Most of these features are available on…

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Dell PowerVault mindshare

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As of November 2024, the mindshare of Dell PowerVault in the Enterprise SAN category stands at 6.0%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

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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