We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT 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."Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"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."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"All-flash performance, Snapshotting capabilities and replication are all valuable features."
"Dell Unity XT is user-friendly and easy to use."
"We can get almost real-time response times."
"Veeam Backup integration: Veeam is the defacto standard for backing up of virtual environments."
"My storage team likes Unity's replication features. Three-site replication is a unique feature that EMC offers us."
"A lot of the Unisphere interfaces are greatly improved in terms of monitoring capabilities, alerting, and ease of use. Setting up the storage and the file system are all just a few clicks away."
"You can add volume and it's automatically registered in VMware."
"It has good performance."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"It is great for applications like Microsoft Exchange, ERP, SQL and VDI; basically saved the VDI buy-in from users, as now performance was seamless in comparison to a physical PC."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"They could improve the price."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"I have a problem because between the Unity XT and the PowerMax, sometimes we need another product between these two products. There could be better integrated and the capacity of the size could be larger."
"It isn't easy to find trusted partners for the product. The solution has issues with mid-level storage and does not come with enterprise storage."
"Inline dedup compression security is coming up as an issue, encryption, etc. is key for our customers. If we could have more ways to do software-based encryption, those are the features customers are asking us for, as well as replication."
"It needs more functionality and the ability to move across more landscapes."
"Dell Unity XT could improve the compatibility of some of the features. Some of my customers had some problems. Additionally, it would be beneficial for the solution to have advanced AI and ML features."
"Scalability of this solution could be improved."
"Maybe deduplication would be something that would be better to have. Also, it's a fairly new management interface, so work is still being done on that. But compared to other vendors and previous EMC storage, the Unity is really good."
"The pricing is a bit high. We'd like it to come down."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"It needs a way to determine the deduplication of each LUN and what the impact would be if we were to move data from one LUN to another."
"In some cases where we don’t need the flexibility of the virtualization layer, we could free up resources on the VPLEX by using the storage replication."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"If you are looking at flash storage solutions, XtremIO doesn't offer any unique features. Most of my customers are migrating their workload from XtremIO to other formats because of this."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF, INFINIDAT InfiniBox and VMware vSAN. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Dell XtremIO report.
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