VNX [EOL] Reviews

• Fast VP
• Fast cache
• Snap clone
• Snap shot
• RecoverPoint
• SAN copy
• Mirror copy
• Access Logix

I have worked on CLARiiON and all series of VNX.

I implemented and performed the migration myself.

EMC pricing is too expensive, like the Apple brand iPhone in the cellphone market.

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.

• 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’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.

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.

• 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.

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.

• Auto Tiering
• It has a good, high-level of storage.

With integration, you can compress, and reduce the load of your Oracle DB, in relation to HCC.

Main business applications run on it.

For about five years.

No.

Not in this case, but it has its limits based on the model you chose.

The specialist are a 10 out of 10. Unfortunately to reach them, it could cost you hours on the phone.

I am a consultant. Customers change solutions all the time because of reliability, relationships, and costs.

It was easy. Just know the protocol (what to turn on first and what IP address to connect to).

Oracle is never the cheaper solution. Compared to others, it is always among the most expensive.

Yes, it was compared with EMC VMAX and Dell Compellent.

Upon implementation, use the guide from the official manual, and if they have access to the EIS.