Dell PowerFlex Reviews

Name: Dell PowerFlex
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4 (20 reviews)

4.0 out of 5

20 reviews
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VxRack System consists of hyper-converged rack-scale engineered systems, with integrated networking, to achieve the scalability and management requirements of traditional and cloud native workloads. The VxRack series is purposely designed to enable customers to quickly deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and/or Private Cloud architectures. VxRack Systems tightly integrate hardware with software and management layers.

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Dell PowerFlex is the #8 ranked solution in HCI Software. PeerSpot users give Dell PowerFlex an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Dell PowerFlex is most commonly compared to VMware vSAN: Dell PowerFlex vs VMware vSAN. Dell PowerFlex is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 15% of all views.

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Scott Yoshimura

Lead Technical Product Manager at United Services Automobile Association

May 4, 2022

We use this solution to manage software-defined infrastructure and for rapid provisioning of computer storage The API catalog helps us use Ansible automation. We still have to build custom providers for PowerFlex Manager to use Ansible, but what we developed has enabled us to provision computer…

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Saikat Chakraborty

General Manager at ACT FIBERNET

Jul 17, 2022

We are customers of Dell and I'm the general manager of our company. The solution saves a lot of space in the data center and that is a key advantage for us. The other advantage is the kind of contingency that it provides within itself, the flexibility of utilizing the resources as and when…

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Syed Fasih

BU Head Cloud, Computing, Storage & DP at Abdulla Fouad Group

May 12, 2023

Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also…

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Dell PowerFlex market share

As of June 2024, the market share of Dell PowerFlex in the HCI category stands at 15.9%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated May 30, 2024

Valuable Features

"The resiliency and data protection are the most valuable features."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The support team responds quickly."

Room for Improvement

"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"The storage capability must be improved."

Pricing

"The product is expensive."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution's price is medium."

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Hospitality Company

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Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Aerospace/Defense Firm

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Learn more about Dell PowerFlex

The result is a fully tested, pre-configured, hyper-converged system with simplified operations at data center and Service Provider scale. VxRack Systems support the deployment of a variety of application workloads, allowing IT to rapidly deliver new services while improving overall agility and efficiency.

Dell PowerFlex was previously known as VxFlex, VxRack FLEX, PowerFlex.

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Dell PowerFlex customers

Canopy, 8x8Inc., Atos, Canadian Pacific, City of Denton, CenturyLink, BNP Paribas, Asyaport, EDF, CSC, Fox Sports, Insight, Hunter, KPIT, Paetec, Rosetta Stone, Sonda, Xerox