"The solution is reliable and stable."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its ability to provide small to medium-range storage. It doesn't have any specific standout features, but it's great for applications, such as surveillance where a large number of videos need to be recorded and performance isn't a priority."
"The storage has been good."
"For us, the initial setup was easy."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its performance."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The Dell warranty is the most valuable feature."
"It is an inexpensive storage solution."
"Both the pricing and the performance are excellent."
"The most valuable features of ExaGrid EX are the Veeam features and Landing Zone."
"I would like Dell to improve on the configuration of the disk groups. Only one group is expandable. Once you configure the other disk group types, you cannot expand them. It limits scalability. If you want maybe to grow a disk group, you lose information, and then you need to build it up again, which is not a good use case for customers."
"The product is generally stable, but there have been instances, to my knowledge, where we faced issues in the controller during software upgrades. The availability is not at the desired level during these upgrade processes, as we sometimes need to shut down both controllers. This could be an area for improvement."
"PowerVault doesn't integrate with Active Directory. Other storage solutions offer SAN and NAS unified storage in a single appliance, but PowerVault is only SAN."
"In most instances, clients are using Dell PowerVault with tape drives, but we want to transition them away from tape drives due to the risk of data loss."
"We could set up the installation through a web server, but it's not very reactive on the web server. For example, when you launch a task, and you don't know exactly if the task has begun or if the task is in progress, or if it's finished. You have to wait for three to five to ten minutes to be sure that the task is running or in progress or finished. So at that point, it's not very good."
"Sometimes integrating into a cluster can be difficult as you have to do it manually."
"The implementation process takes a while."
"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."
"The solution’s web access should be improved."
"I would like to see free disk space."
Dell PowerVault is ranked 2nd in Enterprise SAN with 23 reviews while ExaGrid EX is ranked 3rd in Disk Based Backup Systems with 3 reviews. Dell PowerVault is rated 8.4, while ExaGrid EX is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerVault writes "Easy to use with good integrations and reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ExaGrid EX writes "Excellent performance, scalable, easy to install, and outstanding support". Dell PowerVault is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Huawei OceanStor SNS, Lenovo Storage V Series and Cisco MDS Series, whereas ExaGrid EX is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Quantum DXi Series and Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance.
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