We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Frame-Based Disk Arrays solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Easy management of volumes: You can create volumes and easily assign them to VMware clusters, increasing their size."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"Technical support is very good. I do use it from time to time and it's always excellent."
"The flexibility of this solution has been valuable for our business."
"The solution has a wide variety of valuable features. The data progression works well. We use the snapshot functionality quite a bit and really like it."
"It has been one of the most stable products in our data center."
"The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"The high throughput feature is the most powerful thing in this product."
"The Global Copy and Global Mirror features are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"The connection should be better integrated with the network to offer a better view of the system."
"The ease of use could be improved. It took me a while to learn it."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered higher performance, at least on the back end."
"It's not very efficient anymore. There are better products out there."
"Technical support should respond more quickly because the turnaround time is very high."
"While the price is competitive, in the next release it would be better if they could reduce the fees."
"Dell could improve the upgrading process."
"What I understand is that this is a 13 year old architecture, so it has lived its life and they're phasing it out. Honestly, we were initially struggling with the integration with VMware (but it was fixed with the VMware 6.5) and, then, it was around a 10GB network. At that time, it had the longevity to go to 100GB as well. It got us thinking about, when we go into the containerized architecture, what do we need to do to fix the infrastructure?"
"The solution should embedded replication switches into the hardware instead of using them externally."
"The GUI isn't as user-friendly as other options."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 3rd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 49 reviews while IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is ranked 2nd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM System Storage DS8000 Series writes "Great Global Copy and Global Mirror features with an easy initial setup". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and Huawei OceanStor, whereas IBM System Storage DS8000 Series is most compared with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell SC Series vs. IBM System Storage DS8000 Series report.
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