Name: Dell VPLEX
Rating: 9 (4 reviews)
Author: Dell Technologies

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Alumni Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Quality Management

Supply Chain Visibility

Enterprise

Accounting

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Business Rules Management

Cloud Storage

Container Security

Data Center Outsourcing (Canada)

Data Replication

Debugging

Deception Technology

Density-Optimized Servers

Encryption Key Management

Event Monitoring

Fraud Detection

Graph Database

Industrial IoT

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

Network Diagnostics

Network Performance Monitoring

Rack Servers

Runtime Application Self-Protection

Secure Access Control

Secure Web Gateway

Security Awareness Training

Service Desk Outsourcing

Value Stream Management

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

App Store Optimization (ASO)

Content Experience

Content Management

Creative Management

Customer Journey Analytics

Customer Journey Mapping

Digital Analytics

Email Marketing

Influencer Marketing

Marketing Automation

Marketing Resource Management

Real-Time Interaction Management

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Usability Testing

Web Analytics

Marketing

Business Caller ID

Project Management

Professional Services

Call Recording

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Predictive Sales Analytics

Sales Dialer

Sales

Application Security

Security

Agriculture

Card Management

Dealer Management

Patient Engagement

Shipping

Tour Operator

Travel Agency

Vertical-Specific

medium

Dell PowerFlex (formerly VxFlex) software-defined storage solutions aim to enable transformational agility for organizations looking to modernize their datacenter operations. The vendor states PowerFlex enables extreme flexibility, massive scalability, and enterprise-class performance and resiliency while simplifying infrastructure management and operations.

Dell PowerFlex

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Dell Technologies

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Dell VMAX All Flash is the latest iteration in the former Symmetrix series of enterprise flash array storage, available in the Dell VMAX 250F edition, or the Dell EMC VMAX 950F edition.

Dell VMAX

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Flash Array Performance

Flash Array Integration

Data Compression

Non-Intrusive Upgrades

Simplicity

Power Savings

Dell VMAX EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 EMC Symmetrix VMAX

Dell Unity XT hybrid flash arrays are storage systems for running general purpose workloads that do not require the low latencies and speed of all flash/NVMe architectures. Unity XT hybrid flash arrays balance performance, efficiency, features or outcomes.

Dell Unity XT Unified Storage

NetApp's Cloud Volumes ONTAP combines data control with enterprise-class storage features for various use cases, including file shares and block-level storage serving NAS and SAN protocols (NFS, SMB / CIFS, and iSCSI), Disaster Recovery (DR), Backup and Archive, DevOps, Databases (SQL, Oracle, NoSQL), or any other enterprise workload.

Bring Your Own License (BYOL)

Explore

Standard

Premium

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Versioning

Document files

Image files

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Shared folders

Access control

File search

Device sync

Web interface

File change notifications

Simultaneous editing

Single sign-on

Two-step verification

End-user encryption

User and role management

Storage limit management

File organization

Device management

Password-protected files

Performance

Reliability

Storage Reports

Multi-language

Multi-currency

NetApp

HPE OneView is an IT infrastructure monitoring platform, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

HPE OneView

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides the infrastructure foundation and storage orchestration for a full-platform on-premises hybrid multicloud environment that supports CSI. IBM now supports CSI for its block and file storage families so you can improve container utilization in Kubernetes environments with market-leading virtualization, data reduction and copy data management.

IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift

Storage Management

Nimble Storage was acquired by HPE in 2017. The enterprise flash array product line now goes by the name HPE Nimble Storage.

HPE Nimble Storage

Hitachi Vantara offers the Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) as a virtualization management solution.

Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

Virtualization Management

Hitachi Vantara

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AWS Storage Gateway hybrid cloud storage connects on-premise resources to the AWS Cloud and integrates with AWS storage and archiving services to create a backup and recovery solution.

Data Written

AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon AWS

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.

Dell PowerMax NVMe

Dell VPLEX aims to maximize the returns on investments in all-flash infrastructure or hybrid arrays by providing continuous availability to business-critical workloads. VPLEX also creates a flexible storage architecture designed to gives IT teams the agility they need to respond to rapid business and technology changes while maximizing asset utilization across active-active datacenters.

Dell VPLEX

Storage Management Software (sometimes Data Storage Management Software) gives a unified overview of managed arrays to ease and facilitate control of the individual arrays and the entire data center, private cloud, or the virtualization services for which they're being used.

Dell EMC VPLEX 6.2

Ansible playbook for Dell EMC VPLEX

Likelihood to Recommend

Since 1984, Dell has played a critical role in enabling more affordable and accessible technology around the world. As an end-to-end computing solutions company, Dell continues to transform computing and provide high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.

We serve customers ranging from the world's largest businesses and public-sector organizations, to small and medium businesses, and individual consumers. We are deeply committed to serving our community, and the company has also received numerous accolades ranging from employer of choice to energy conservation awards.

At Dell, we promote an environment that is rooted in the entrepreneurial spirit in which the company was founded. This means fostering an open approach to technology innovation that delivers effective solutions for all customer challenges. We believe technology is essential for human success and that it should be accessible to everyone.

Reviews

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High bandwidth

Low latency

High availability

Business continuity

Storage systems

File transfer

Home

Storage Management Software

VMware ESXi

Cisco UCS B-Series, of the UCS series

EMC VNX (Discontinued)

Cisco UCS C-Series, of the UCS series

Bandwidth

We are using VPLEX as part of a corporate-wide high availability strategy providing us with a means to achieve data center and storage failover for all of our corporate production application and files. We are running this between two data centers creating a distanced RAID and creating a more robust infrastructure and ensuring business continuity.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

High Availability
Fail Over
Business continuity

Things done well

Requires high bandwidth low latency connectivity between sites.
Cost wise it is expensive because you have to purchase with a mirror in mind.
Configuration can be difficult.

Things done poorly

This works in two fold. First it creates a copy of the data in two locations, protecting the data from a SAN or a NAS failure. Second, it provides a data point in a second location that can be used as storage for a stretched virtual cluster, giving a virtual stack a means to continue operation.

Reduced down time.
Provides business continuity.
Reduces single point of failure on the SAN.

Return on Investment

When this was purchased there was no other product that could achieve what we were looking for, now this feature is pretty standard with storage platforms. It is a costly solution not just the hardware but the infrastructure to support it. It requires a connection between sites with at least 3 gigabytes per second and sub 5 millisecond latency and a network infrastructure capable of handling that.

Alternatives

EMC VNX, VMware ESXi, Cisco UCS B-Series, Cisco UCS C-Series

Other Software Used

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Dell VPLEX

Overview

What is Dell VPLEX?

VPLEX for HA and FO

Product Demos