We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and NetApp AFF 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."On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"Speed and reliability:"
"The program is very stable."
"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."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"We mostly use it for backup, because we cannot measure anything, and we are afraid to use it for surveillance systems. We were planning to use it for mostly for surveillance systems."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"My favorite part is all-flash solid drives. All of my applications are running on an all-flash array. Before, we used to get too many severity tickets on performance, but as soon as we migrated everything to an all-flash array, our critical applications are at top performance."
"The most valuable feature of NetApp AFF is the reputation of the company."
"Performance is excellent. In fact, it's so fast that we're not really even taxing it all that much."
"I think it is a very stable product."
"The ability to do SnapMirror or SnapVault for data resiliency and backup."
"It impacts customer retention because of its overall ease. When you are running a business, where time is a factor, that is the biggest selling point. Things happen really rapidly, when they happen, and being able to say, "Yeah, we can get this up and running in a day, if you want," or even less time in some cases. Sometimes, that can be what makes or breaks our case."
"NetApp tech support is so good. Their tech support has always been so stable and the people are so good in case of any failure or any good feature that needs to be updated or features that supposedly can help with performance to improve some performance. NetApp support is one of the best that I deal with."
"It has improved performance for our enterprise applications, data analytics, and VMs. These improvements are a result of all-flash, throughput, reliability, compression, etc."
"They could improve the price."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"We've encountered challenges in integrating other products with Dell Xtremio, as it tends to be more vendor-locked. This means we can't easily explore other solutions that might work alongside Dell."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"I have experienced slow responses several times, if the ticket has only been opened in portal."
"We currently use some thin provisioning for our planning system, but we will probably move away from thin provisioning because our Solaris planning system actually has some issues with the thin provisioning and way Solaris handles it, since Solaris uses a ZFS file system. The ZFS file system doesn't like the thin provisioning changing things and it brings systems down, which is bad."
"The only downside to NetApp AFF is its price."
"The cost of this solution should be reduced."
"Higher communication: I love the professional services and I love everything that everyone's able to offer us, but I find sometimes we're not aware of all the things that NetApp can do."
"The product should be more competitive and come up with additional features. They should keep the client always in mind and as the top priority. This would be the best way to compete with other solutions."
"Tech support is great with NetApp if you can get past Tier 1. A lot of times when you open a new case or do a direct dial-in with an issue, like with any support, you will definitely reach a Tier 1 level that is not particularly helpful until you get escalated to an expert."
"I want an interface through ONTAP that look more like what it does for the E-Series with Santricity."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while NetApp AFF is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, INFINIDAT InfiniBox and VMware vSAN, whereas NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, VMware vSAN and VAST Data. See our Dell XtremIO vs. NetApp AFF report.
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