VNX [EOL] Reviews

• 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.

Ease of use of the management software

I have used it for five years.

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We don't have any case where we need to add more storage on this product.

Customer service does respond on time.

Technical support is good.

I did not previously use a different solution. When I came in to my company, they were already using this product.

Initial setup is not as straightforward as other new storage that is available now; there are many things to do to create pool, LUN.

We implemented it through the vendor team; they have the knowledge on how to implement the product.

You need a lot of licenses in order to use this product, which makes the product expensive; the maintenance contract price also increases significantly every year.

I did not evaluate other options, as they already implemented the product before I started working at the company.

We have all the information residing on the same hardware, the same storage. So if the servers go down, we have already secured the data in the storage.

Multi-tiering, because it positively affects the efficiency of the storage space.

The next release is the Unity storage. That is the new family. Many of the features that are included in the Unity have improved over the VNX features. The VNX is a little bit old. What would help would be if the VNX had embedded encryption. That would be great.

It's really stable. We haven't had any issue such as data unavailability or data loss.

The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations. So the scalability is a little bit limited. But that has been improved in the new storage family called Unity.

We do use technical support and it is always good.

The initial setup was simple and really fast.

When we compared it with other products, the performance and the security were the advantages that this storage gives us.

When selecting a vendor there are many criteria we look at but those that come to mind are scalability, security, resilience.

I think it's a good solution. It has many benefits, features that are of interest for many customers. 

With the new system, the Unity, many of the deficiencies of the VNX were solved. But the VNX offers features and stability that other products don't. It's really reliable.

FAST Cache & FAST Pool are very useful and similar to the SDS solution on a single storage system.

Source deduplication and compression will improve the TCO of these storage systems.

About five years.

The product is rather stable.

Yes, we have had issues. The system is limited by the number of enclosures.

The best tech support we've had has been from EMC.

We've moved from the EMC CLARiiON CX4 series to EMC VNX.

Not very complicated, mostly straightforward.

IBM, NetApp.