Furthermore, EMC support is second to none, EMC engineers will visit your site to replace a disk or component before you are even aware that there is a problem (via ESRS – see below).

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it_user240936

Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 26, 2017

This product has enabled dynamic allocation of disk resources, and at the same time, improved the data access speed and application performance by a large extent.

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it_user814776

Principal Infrastructure Architect

Feb 6, 2018

A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service.

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it_user820140

‎Chief Catalyst at ssnc

Feb 14, 2018

We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems.

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Reviewer588

Head of Microinformatics at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 5, 2018

I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution.

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JohnBowling

IT Manager - Storage & Backup at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 13, 2019

Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever.

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reviewer1314546

Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Jul 19, 2020

We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay.

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VMAX [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user2529

Manager of Data Center at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 15, 2012

Cost of the hardware tends to be high, however, you do get what you pay for.

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it_user159387

Works at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 29, 2014

It is still expensive.

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it_user164970

Manager Storage and Virtualization with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 24, 2014

The only draw back is you don’t get multiple point in time copies.

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it_user234747

Practice Manager - Cloud, Automation & DevOps at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 17, 2015

Be aware that buying a Symmetrix VMAX is like owning a McLaren F1 race car; consider yourself lucky to drive it at the track since everything else must be performed by McLaren.

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it_user240936

Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 26, 2017

Manageability is a bit of a challenge, as the user interface to access the array is not very user-friendly.

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it_user814776

Principal Infrastructure Architect

Feb 6, 2018

Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction.

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it_user820140

‎Chief Catalyst at ssnc

Feb 14, 2018

Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved.

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Reviewer588

Head of Microinformatics at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 5, 2018

I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers.

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JohnBowling

IT Manager - Storage & Backup at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 13, 2019

I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem.

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reviewer1314546

Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Jul 19, 2020

The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore.

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