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."Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"The performance is very good."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"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."
"Speed and reliability:"
"We are using the AQoS operating system, which allows us to get a lot more out of our AFF systems."
"It is easy to manage data through the GUI by using Active IQ and the unified manager."
"Performance is excellent. In fact, it's so fast that we're not really even taxing it all that much."
"Speed, reliability, ease of use are the most valuable features."
"AFF has improved my organization because we now have better performance. We can scale up and we can create servers a lot faster now. With the storage that we had, it used to take a lot longer, but now we can provide the business what they need a lot faster."
"The most valuable features of AFF are its speed and the responsive support from NetApp."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and level of technical support."
"The NVMe flash cache is the most useful feature. It lowers transactional speed even more."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve 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."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"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."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"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."
"The dashboard needs improvement. The dashboard needs some uplift"
"During the initial setup, you need to know what you are doing."
"We installed NetSender to test it. I think it could be a good solution. It is very small now, but will probably become bigger in the next few months to years."
"The only downside to NetApp AFF is its price."
"When it comes to the cloud, they might need to improve in terms of making it clear why someone would use a NetApp solution over cloud-made storage."
"There are no RDMA capabilities in CIFS (SMB) and NFS protocols."
"It used to give us the volume where LANs should be placed when we created a LAN in the older version. However, in the newer version of ONTAP, it does not give where to place the LAN in the volume. So, that liberty has been taken away. If that was there again, it would be very good."
"We would like to have NVMe on FabricPool working because it broke our backups. We enabled FabricPool to do the tiering from our AFFs to our Webscale but it sort of broke our Cobalt backups."
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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