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."It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"Speed and reliability:"
"Thin storage allocation"
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The program is very stable."
"The most valuable features are the performance and the storage efficiency, due to the compression and deduplication... The efficiency is very important because we can buy fewer disks for more data."
"Its top-tier performance ranks as the most valuable aspect."
"In terms of the footprint, it is far more efficient. It has smaller, higher-capacity drives than our older unit. In terms of space, power, and cooling, it has simplified things."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Storage is very reliable. You don't have to do much maintenance."
"Easier to manage with the clustered system and everything with the newest ONTAP 9."
"The speed is great. That's probably number one in terms of features we appreciate."
"It has a good interface. Its configuration and flexibility are also good."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"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 am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"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."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"I think for us, improvement would probably be the changes in how the flash is actually used inside the system and how we manage the actual disk and stripes within the system."
"To be more competitive in the industry, they can develop deduplication, compression, and smarter features in the same array instead of all-flash."
"In terms of improvement, the support could be a little better."
"I've had a few cases where support wasn't able to answer the question or they took quite a while."
"The scaling needs improvement. NetApp is limited for scaling options."
"We would like to have a feature that automatically moves volumes between aggregates, based on the performance. We normally need to do this manually."
"We have had trouble with restoring applications, and if there is more support for application-aware backups then that would be great."
"To enhance the already excellent administration, one area for potential improvement could be in terms of integration."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 26th 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 PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, VMware vSAN and NetApp FAS Series. See our Dell XtremIO vs. NetApp AFF report.
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