Dell Compellent (discontinued) vs. IBM Storage Insights

Dell Compellent has a decent portfolio of products for varying sizes of business. Their licensing model is suited for those not wanting total a la carte fare, and administration is intuitive as compared to other storage arrays. This combined with Co-Pilot support gives Dell a good presence in a vast number of scenarios where networked storage is required over a DAS solution. It's only fallback is its own NAS solution, which itself may be better suited to smaller environments

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IBM Storage Insights is well suited where a firm deals with crucial data that require secure storage. In such a case, the IBM Storage Insights Cloud storage solution comes in handy since it offers a secure storage environment. Besides, IBM Storage Insights allows for the secure transfer of multiple data to various storage tiers, and this results in the cost-effectiveness of the application.

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• Block level RAID with data tiered based on how often those blocks are read or written.
• You can mix and match different ways of accessing the SAN, FC or ISCSI.
• They offer the ability to mix and match drive speeds and sizes within racks. This provides for larger, slower drives to store old data, while providing fast SSD storage for data that is constantly in use.

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• Competent storage approach, with extensive external space that suits all data and content.
• Confined and manageable space, with proper ways to deploy the required security apparatus.
• Significant interaction with numerous IBM applications.

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• Reliability. We had several times where VMFS luns would become corrupted and we'd have to move all VM's off to other storage
• Performance. 1g iSCSI performance was abysmal (although the unit we used was an older device)
• Management and Monitoring. Both management and monitoring are pretty primitive. We were never able to integrate monitoring into Nagios.

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• The deployment demands are hefty and time demanding.
• The performance control and monitoring requires the IT skills.
• Nonetheless, IBM Storage Insights is a proficient choice that businesses embrace.

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This is not solely based on the support engineers themselves but more so that the logging and gotcha's that their array has. There have been multiple times where logs are pulled, but the folder is not large enough, and it crashes the array. Other times there are certain aspects that support either does not know of or isn't knowledgable about how to look at particular issues that could be causing problems.

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I have used Dell EMC Unity XT and I will say that the SC Series is better in the areas of the scalability is excellent. If I need more space, it's a no downtime solution. It's harder to get the funding than it is to get the solution itself. In addition, I like the way it integrates with our environment. These features help us use multiple soft applications. They give us an advantage versus traditional storage resources.

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I have tried a product called Xorux, but it does not have the same functionalities as IBM Storage Insights, it does not have the same granularity of the graphs and reports

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• This storage array is a middle-range array that brings speed with peace of mind due to the stability.
• The uptime has helped us with making sure the hosts and servers that connect to this array have as much uptime as possible.
• The negative still has to be that these arrays can't seem to handle quick/high I/O usage.

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• Competent event controller, more so the security jeopardizing factors which makes the operations stable.
• Again, IBM Storage Insights has deep analytical proficiency, which satisfies the business database needs.
• The demand forecast from IBM Storage Insights makes companies have professional planning.

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