Dell PowerVault Reviews

Right now, Dell PowerVault is working okay, but it will become obsolete soon. I will have to look for a new solution in place of Dell PowerVault.

The most valuable feature of the solution is the strong and high capabilities related to the system and data.

The high prices of the solution are an area of concern where improvements are required.

In the future, I would like Dell PowerVault to provide me with replication features since, currently, it is a feature for which you need to make certain payments and is not included in the standard package provided by Dell.

I have been using Dell PowerVault for three years. I am a reseller of the solution. I use Dell PowerVault LTO7.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. In my company, we never had any stability issues with the product.

It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

In Italy, my company deals with medium-sized businesses that use the solution, and it is something that you can count on your hands. As per my knowledge, I can say that there are 500 users of the solution. I don't know about how small and medium-sized companies are described in the UK.

I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

Positive

The product's initial setup was very easy. I rate the product's setup phase a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

The solution is deployed on a hybrid cloud.

The product's deployment phase takes a few days.

Dell PowerVault is a really expensive product. For many solutions similar to Dell PowerVault, you need to make payments for the amount of GB you want to use. If you want to use the solution in TB, you must pay much more to use it.

I rate the product price a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high.

I rate the overall product a ten out of ten.

Hybrid Cloud

We use the solution for internal and external ERP.

I like the tool's CloudIQ feature.

If the solution came with a synchronous application, it would be particularly advantageous for small businesses operating across multiple sites.

We have been using the solution since the early 2000s.

The solution is stable. I rate it a ten on ten.

The solution is scalable. I rate it a ten on ten.

We haven't used technical support for assistance. It has been running smoothly for several years now.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The solution is more cost-effective than the competitors. It’s an affordable option for small businesses.

Overall, I rate Dell PowerVault a ten on ten.

On-premises

Expandability is the most important feature for us.

The MD3260 has given us the ability to have longer term storage for our customers and a reasonable price.

The MD3220i needs to allow for larger drive sizes.

We have owned the MD3220i for about 2 years so far and we are new to the MD3260 only owning it for about 2 months.

The only issue during deployment is that Dell has different ways of installing different SANs. We would like to see more standardization when it comes to the full line of Dell storage products.

Customer Service:

I would rate their customer service as a 10 out of 10.

Technical Support:

I would rate their technical support as a 10 out of 10.

The initial setup of both devices we have was not complex but rather tricky considering they are installed and configured in different ways.

We have implemented all of our SANs in house.

With the 3260i, we use it as disaster recovery storage for our customers. Previously with the powervault, we were paying approximately .81 cents per GB. With the 3260, we are down to .18 per GB in cost. This enables us to lower prices for our customers are still make more money.

Since we are Dell partners, we simply chose Dell as the vendor. The ease of working with them is what is most important and their technical support has been first class.

The PowerVault 3220i is a good unit, but my biggest concern with it is that the unit will only support up to 1TB sized hard drives. This makes the cost of unit higher when using it as added storage. The MD3260 is a great unit, inexpensive, hold tons of drives, its expandable, and the cost is low.

If I had advice to give, it would be based on all the Dell Storage devices. Make sure you evaluate each device thoroughly and understand exactly what you need it to do. Make sure you talk with a product specialist and let them understand your motives. Choosing the correct device for the job is most important.

We are a hospital in Jordan, I'm the IT director and we are end users of this solution. 

We have this solution running almost all the time and it's very reliable and stable.

I'll need to replace Dell soon because it's almost obsolete and considered old technology. If I continued using it, I'd need to increase its capacity. We need higher performance and more reliable storage. It's considered an expensive solution in Jordan, it would be better if the price could be reduced. 

I've been using this solution for nearly eight years. 

This solution is stable and scalable but it's fallen behind our needs.  

We had some performance issues after our initial setup and they managed to resolve all the problems. I haven't needed to contact support since then. 

The initial setup is not that straightforward. It involves SAN switches and some setup procedure that are a little complex.

Licensing fees are expensive - whether that's specifically in Jordan, I'm not sure.

If this solution is within your means as a storage option then I would recommend it.

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

On-premises

Extending volume sizes.

It allows on demand without disruption to growing the size of a volume which then in turn allows a system to see more disk capacity previously this required downtime and had to be schedule out of hours.

Better monitoring / event logs and firmware upgrade process.

2 years.

No the San was fairly easy to install and the documentation is good.

Only once when the storage array seem to be very slow and caused VMware Hosts to not see the volumes.

Not yet, as this was for a small virtualisation environment of 20 servers and 100 desktops.

Customer Service:

Very good general Dell Storage support is very responsive.

Technical Support:

Technical knowledge was good.

EMC AX3, due to high hardware and maintenance costs Dell was selected.

Was easy to setup.

Vendor team, Ultima Business Solutions.

1 year.

Setup cost was £30k hard to determine day to day costs.

Dell EqualLogic was reviewed but deemed too expensive for the use case.

Understand that this is a entry level storage array and has limited scalability perhaps below 100 server environments.

My primary uses are virtualization and general-purpose workloads.

The features I've found most valuable are replication and tiered storage.

PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud.

I have been using this solution for a year.

PowerVault is stable.

Dell's technical support is excellent.

The initial setup was easy and simple.

PowerVault is an entry-level model for customers needing their first storage solution. I would rate this solution as ten out of ten. 

On-premises

A highly reliable RAID system with durable high speed hard disk drives. The OS can be flashed on to a SD card thereby giving you more space for storage. I've found that the enterprise support from Dell Customer Care is excellent.

No LCD panel for viewing status on-board.

My Company has huge data requirements for which I bought this Dell Powervault NX 3200 with 10 TB storage. It was selected due to very impressive IOPS performance and has proven itself. In my company there are more than 100 users connecting to this server simultaneously and still the I/O operations are very smooth. Dell-IDRAC provides a nice way to manage and monitor its performance.