VNX [EOL] Reviews

It’s a great platform that’s evolved very quickly that overtook NetApp with the Vblock initiative. Everything was valuable – HA, SRM, Vplex, metrocluster, entire suite of products

We can deploy quickly and it’s storage-based, making it data-focused that provides a virtualized and structured way of moving data.

I can’t think of anything because they’re evolving more and more. They’re making headway into datacenter where non-structured data-type infrastructure around Hadoop, security, encryption.

It's very stable, and works well with VMware.

It’s amazing, you can add and stack, and add more elements. You can group to scale horizontally and vertically, can add VMware tech, can add flash arrays, and everything integrates seamlessly. The intelligence controls everything. I don’t worry about infrastructure and I don’t have to move to the cloud.

Our TAM is great and acts as a liaison for us with EMC.

It was complex, as you really need to understand what you’re doing and have different layers (architects engineers operations, networking, etc.), BUT it’s straightforward, as if you follow procedures, it will work out well, but everyone needs to be onboard. It’s simple to run, but the setup was complex.

they don’t quite provide enough security in the data centre. There’s a discrepancy between it, DevOps and automation.

• Scalability
• High performance
• Easy administration

We need, in real time, to be able copy in more than two data centers, and EMC gave us a better solution with great performance.

We get good performance from all our applications like Oracle DB, SAP, Sybase DB, Exchange, and SharePoint which are running on the backend of my storage device.

We've used it for one year, alongside RPA, VMAX, and VPLEX, all by EMC.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Customer Service:

9/10 - we get immediate support from EMC.

Technical Support:

9/10 - we get immediate support from EMC.

There was no previous solution in place.

It's a complex setup as we have three different data centers, which are far from each other.

The implementation was done by a team from EMC who were 9/10.

EMC products are costly when compared to other vendors such HP, Hitachi, Dell, and NetApp.

No other options were evaluated.

If you have a banking and finance domain, then go for EMC products as they offer better performance and scalability.

Primary storage in our data center, and we use it with an HPE SAN switch. We've worked with EMC for about three years.

It has very simple management with reliability and also security. We do not have any complexity with these products.

When we started the process of looking for a SAN vendor I had four primary criteria: reliability, performance, cost, and simplicity. We were really looking for a unicorn and were fully expected to have to make compromises in one of those areas. The Nimble CS-Series was recommended by our solutions provider, and we were blown away. Not only was it the most affordable option, but it was the easiest to deploy, had the best performance, and has proven to be reliable with 100% uptime.

SDS (software-defined storage) is so required in next releases because we are going to the next generation of IT infrastructure environment.

One to three years.

• Raid pools
• Snapshots

• With raid pools, you aren't limited with RAID size.
• Snapshots will ease your testing on the applications.

• Caching
• Auto-tiering

I've been using block OE 5.32 and file level 7 and the VNX 2 series, block OE 5.33 and file level 8 for six years.

Not really.

If it's configured properly after sizing, then no.

No, it's easy to upgrade and expand.

Customer Service:

It's great.

Technical Support:

It's great.

HP EVA and once NetApp, but they both had slow performance and a lack of features so we switched.

The first time was easy, as it was a simple design.

We did it in-house.

It's around 250% over 12 months due to the amount of data that we have.

Start with the basic licensing and add upon need. In our market, we need keep the cost of 1TB at less than $1000.

NetApp is better with CIFS and file shares.

• It has increased our availability as we have gone to full virtualization.
• It has greatly improved our efficiency as we have reduced server deployment time.
• It has also reduced our energy costs as we now have fewer servers with its support for virtualization.

• Integration with VMware
• Support for virtualization
• High performance
• Easy management

Poor connection to FC.

There were no scalability issues.

Technical support is excellent, but somewhat slow in the African region.

We did not use different solution before.

The initial setup was straightforward.

Pricing is somewhat higher, especially in Zambia, perhaps due to the low sales volume.

It is a great product: scalable, reliable, and robust.

It is easy to deploy, has a simple interface, and has all the valuable features a small business would need to get going. It has thin provisioning which means a lower TCO and it has FAST cache support which means that performance is not compromised.

This entry level product has just enough premium features to make it effective. One example is when a client was able to leverage the thin capabilities of the array and it's tight VMware integration to go from a legacy array taking up lots of rack space and power to a 2U VNXe1600 which helps reduce the amount of rack space and in turn power and cooling requirements

As an entry level array, this is just right, but adding support for FAST-VP would be beneficial although that feature is available on the higher end VNXe3200.

If you are looking for a stable,powerful and effective entry level SAN that you can provision on your own for a small environment or a small office/remote office situation - this is definately the product for you.

A new ST VP is significant change introduced with VNX which makes data access considerably fast. Performance is noticeably great as compared to other Celera and Clarion models. SSD are used for caching due to which data reading /writing is quite fast. Database operations are quite fast over this storage with cache and FC channeled connection. It has extremely large and flexible storage size as per the need.

Due to very complex structure and sophisticated architecture, it needs experts for trivial troubleshooting also. It’s bulky and expensive.

We moved from CX with FC/SATA to VNX with SSD, SAS, NL-SAS. Using SSD as Fast Cache (and for VDI boot images) we have seen huge performance gains in certain operations. Our exchange admin reported that db defrag operations that ran for hours per db were now able to complete for all dbs in under 2 hours. We like the Fast Cache and see over 50% of the IOs from the VNX being provided by those two disks.

• Levels of performance
• Protection
• Compliance
• Ease of management

In a banking environment, on which we required a very high throughput for our database, we have used this product and our desired response was received.

They may change the disks from NL-SAS to Flash, but it would be costlier for customers.

We implemented the solution in 2015 and it is still in our environment until now.

No.

No, it is easily scalable.

EMC technical support is good in India. They meet the SLAs well.

In our previous solution, we were getting less performance from our DB. So, it was a better idea to change to EMC.

Initial EMC setup is easier than other Storage product vendors. It is mandatory to know the default IPs of SPs and the password for the admin user.

Pricing and licensing quotes can be requested by the vendor's sales team. There response rate is high.

We also had the option of NetApp and HP Storage, but from a pricing and support perspective, we preferred EMC.

It's a good product and easy to deploy.