Dell VMAX All Flash Storage Reviews & Product Details

The Dell EMC VMAX All Flash storage array is engineered to deliver exceptional performance, scalability, and reliability for mission-critical applications in modern data centers. By leveraging advanced flash drive technology, VMAX All Flash ensures consistent high-speed data access, making it ideal for enterprises requiring robust storage solutions. Key Features and Functionality: - High Performance: Achieves up to 6.7 million IOPS with response times as low as 350 microseconds, ensuring rapid data processing for demanding workloads. - Scalability: Offers effective flash capacities up to 4 petabytes, with the ability to scale out to 8 V-Bricks, accommodating growing data needs seamlessly. - Advanced Data Services: Includes features such as advanced replication, data encryption, storage management, and data protection, enhancing data security and management capabilities. - High Availability: Designed for 99.9999% uptime, providing continuous access to critical data and applications. - Workload Consolidation: Supports diverse workloads, including open systems, mainframe, IBM i, and both block and file storage, enabling efficient consolidation of various applications. Primary Value and Problem Solving: VMAX All Flash addresses the challenges of modern enterprises by providing a high-performance, scalable, and reliable storage solution capable of handling massive workload consolidations. Its advanced data services and high availability ensure that mission-critical applications run smoothly, reducing downtime and enhancing operational efficiency. By supporting a wide range of workloads and offering simplified scalability, VMAX All Flash helps organizations optimize their data center operations and adapt to evolving business needs.

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Average based on 7 real user reviews.

Hisham D.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/15/2023

"Powerful, high-performance, flexible, and redundant storage solution."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

Well-suited to supporting mission-critical workloads in enterprise-scale data centers. If you are concerned about your organization's storage infrastructure, Dell EMC VMax can offer a wide range of benefits that can significantly improve your daily operations.

Its high performance and low latency. It also offers a range of performance-enhancing features, including advanced caching technologies, hybrid acceleration, and automated tiering, and can support a wide range of workloads, including transaction processing, analytics, and big data applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

Dell EMC VMAX is a complex storage system with a wide range of features and options. This complexity can be challenging for some administrators to manage, and it may require specialized knowledge to configure and maintain.

Being a Dell provided solution can be double-edged weapon this can provide benefits in terms of reliability, support and integration with other Dell products, But on the other hand, it may also lead to vendor locking and a lack of flexibility in terms of interoperability with other systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell VMAX All Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scalability, for its ability to scale to meet the needs of enterprise-scale workloads. It offered me a variety of high-performance storage options, including HDD & SSD arrays, and can support both block and file-based protocols.

Other use cases for Dell EMC VMax were data protection and high availability for its redundancy functions and capability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeffrey C.

Team Leader

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/17/2023

"Great for mainframe"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

Fast and reliable with an excellent response time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

The user interface is a bit dated and it can difficult to configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/5/2023

"Experienced network administrator"

4/5

What do you like best about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

Easy configuration and access to use. Easy interface for configuration. Quality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

Nothing specific regarding software or configuration, maybe physical size and architect should be changed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/16/2022

"Great product!"

4/5

What do you like best about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

This product is very helpful for the large number of documents that I have to save for work purposes. A starting point for the family, the VMAX 250F is ideally suited for customers with modest capacity requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

Nothing in particular - it is a little bulky though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/6/2022

"Dell Emc vmax"

5/5

What do you like best about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

DELL EMC allow migration of day from other storage device hassle free. Also Dell EMC enable direct backup of data easy for us. Overall it gives a very good experience on storage side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

To use and operate dell Emc vmax all flash storage is not met.but overall dell Emc vmax do solve all our storage demand aain this we get very high speed flash storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/2/2020

"Gold standard for enterprise block storage"

5/5

What do you like best about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

All the expected data services are there: SRDF is the best replication solution on the market, QoS for hosts, service level optimization at the storage group level, SnapVx snapshots save tons of physical disk space, etc. CLI access integrates perfectly with Unix shell scripts or Windows Powershell. Regarding reliability, I have worked with the Dell/EMC Symmetrix family of arrays (VMAX is part of that family) for almost 25 years and have never had an unplanned downtime because of array hardware or service failure. Finally, the Dell EMC account team is second to none and is an extension of our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell VMAX All Flash Storage?

This is not necessarily a dislike, but just a fair warning. Although the array is not too complicated to manage for basic storage presentation, because there is just so much you can do with the array (replication, snapshots, storage presentation, etc) there is a lot to learn in order to master the true power of the array. It is a true Tier 1 enterprise array. Also, it is expensive, but you get what you pay for. If I had unlimited funds, I would run our entire enterprise on VMAX/PMAX, but that's just not financially possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell VMAX All Flash Storage:

Work very closely with your Dell EMC sales team to scope out the solution specific to your environment. It will take some time, but this is a serious investment and a complex system, so patience is required. Your sales team will get you there. They work very closely with back-end engineers/specialists to make sure you're getting the right configuration. They don't want to just give you a generic configuration and say "here you go...good luck." Put your senior engineers on the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell VMAX All Flash Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our mission-critical workloads run on VMAX (Electronic Medical Record, PACS imaging, interface engine, etc). For workloads that need consistent sub-millisecond response times and absolute 100% uptime, it is our platform of choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.