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Dell PowerMax NVMe

Score9.9 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Dell PowerMax NVMe?

Dell PowerMax NVME is presented as a end-to-end NVMe, storage class memory (SCM) for persistent storage, real-time machine learning and up to 350GB per second to power critical workloads.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Dell PowerMax NVMe has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 6 ratings of Dell PowerMax NVMe's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Flash Array Performance

    Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives

    Category average: 9.7

  • Flash Array Integration

    Integration with hypervisors and applications

    Category average: 9.2

  • Data Compression

    Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades

    Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required

    Category average: 9.3

  • Power Savings

    Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives

    Category average: 8.1

  • Simplicity

    Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training

    Category average: 9

Reviews

What users are saying about Dell PowerMax NVMe.
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Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe - Powerful storage

Incentivized
Srishti Shukla
Territory Business Manager in Information Technology at Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dell EMC PowerMax Storage is one of the fastest storage array. we are using this storage in our highly critical production SAP application and oracle database.

Pros

  • Fastest storage array in the world.
  • this system provide the performance density up to 7.5 million IOPS5 per rack
  • Its support maximum system

Cons

  • Costly
  • Not well suit for small data company

Return on Investment

  • it has 25 per cent better response time.
  • Its support maximum system
  • High performance
  • This product are implemented with all rich feature

Alternatives Considered

IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) and Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage

PowerMax the Array with Power to Spare

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PowerMax is the successor to the VMAX line of arrays and continues along iteration in Dell EMC's Symmetrix product line, which has been around for nearly 30 years and is the gold standard for enterprise storage. It is extremely fast, reliable, and efficient. The Unisphere management interface is faster and easier to use than previous generations. All the expected data services are there: Snapshots, QoS, replication, deduplication, compression, etc. PowerMax is a standard rack-mount configuration that co-exists in the rack with any other hardware, unlike previous generations that required its own cabinet(s)."

Pros

  • Performance
  • Reliability - Uptime
  • Transparent Storage Tiering.
  • NVMe Drive Capability.
  • Optane Ready for both drives and memory.

Cons

  • Can be complex if someone is not versed on the product.
  • Expensive.
  • High cost of maintenance.

Return on Investment

  • Cost
  • Opex vs Capex
  • Maintenance Costs.
  • Learning curve on software to maintain the array.

Other Software Used

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, VMware Tanzu Greenplum (Pivotal Greenplum), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform