We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Dell XtremIO based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"For the migration process from the older VMAX arrays to PowerMax, we VMotioned everything. It was easy."
"The most valuable feature is its global cache, which allows for uncompromised performance."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerMax NVMe is its replication feature."
"Technical support has been excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the performance and compression. The most useful tool is CloudIQ."
"It allows us to protect our data using different data centers and replicate bi-directionally between our two main data centers."
"We find the service level option to provision storage very valuable. The ability to define different service levels for storage groups helps us in prioritizing our workload at the infrastructure level."
"The compression and deduplication are the most valuable features because of the cost savings."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"We've seen great enhancements from the performance point of view. There's good availability, stability, and continuity, but the performance actually has increased by 60 or 70%."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"The solution is not cheap."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"The tool needs to improve its performance. Today's applications are demanding a response rate of one millisecond or below. The product should also look into AI integration."
"It's a relatively new product, but for the next release I would like to see higher bandwidth on the front-end adapters. This would allow even greater scalability for critical workloads and consolidation for non-critical workloads. The hosts may not require that level of I/O performance today. However, it allows us to scale physical non-cloud environments without large investment."
"Dell needs to offer more midrange storage options with enterprise-class features similar to the PowerMAX."
"I would also like to see a real-time, graphical view of metrics. I don't know how far back in time we can look, but if we could see the performance from two months or three months back, and how it is performing now, that would be helpful."
"There are some stability issues that we just recently experienced. We hope the next release will solve these problems."
"The initial setup was complex, and we had experienced people working on it."
"We brought up this question to the implementation engineer. We were comparing use cases where a customer is using RecoverPoint, then goes to PowerMax. In our previous setup with XtremIO, we were using RecpverPoint and keeping snapshots for 30 days, every few seconds. With PowerMax, I requested this for every 15 minutes, keeping it for a week. The engineer's answer was, "There will be too many snapshots. It might slow down the system." This is specifically for the use cases where there is RecoverPoint. While PowerMax works with RecoverPoint, and you can use it, there should be some way where you can have even more snapshots and not to worry about performance and system cache."
"The price could be lower, and we are unhappy with the price."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"Management: At the time, there was no snapshot scheduler, so I had to write XSnapCourier to address it. The sad thing is that even after the newest release, which includes a native scheduler, most customers using XSnapCourier chose to stick with it due to a more feature-rich experience."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, INFINIDAT InfiniBox and VMware vSAN. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Dell XtremIO report.
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