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."The solution is very reliable."
"The reliability is very good."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"The program is very stable."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"Linear performance – The XtremIO wasn’t the fastest in all tests against other all flash arrays, but even with a massive workload, the response time and user experience were absolutely predictable with no sharp drop-offs."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"The most valuable feature of Dell EMC XtremIO is the data protection (DP) group, it is one of the most advanced features in these types of arrays. The dedupe and compression that this array provides both do a superb job."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is efficiency."
"Tech support has been absolutely amazing. I think on the technical aspects as well, my staff is able to get great support from the NetApp technical support resources that we have. What I love about NetApp is they have a health care division. At times, it's such an amazing thing because if we have a healthcare-related issue, there's no one better than having prior CIOs from health care organizations that NetApp has hired, and that are part of the health care team, to help out with any of those initiatives and support problems. Support has been absolutely phenomenal."
"The scale up version of it is the most valuable feature. You can go to 24 nodes, which is very cool."
"The most valuable features of the solution are speed, performance, and reliability."
"It has a good interface. Its configuration and flexibility are also good."
"Performance is excellent. In fact, it's so fast that we're not really even taxing it all that much."
"The most valuable features are the IO performance that we get, the cluster part, and the increased workload and performance with the SSDs."
"The most valuable features are the ease of administration and configuration, as well as the speed of deployment."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"It was not proactive communication."
"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."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"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."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"The stability is good but there is room for improvement with other options."
"In the past, NetApp designed it so that you have a 70% threshold. You would never fill up past 70% since you need to have that room available. Whereas with Pure, I can fill it up to 110% of what they listed and it's still going at full speed. NetApp can't do that."
"The admin tools and the integration with other products and clouds can be improved. It should also be easier to identify and troubleshoot problems in this solution. It takes a long time, and it should be improved."
"A graphical user interface displaying efficiency metrics, such as compression and deduplication rates, would be a great addition."
"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."
"One of the features that I am looking for, which is already in the works, is to be able to take my code and automatically move it to the cloud."
"The total cost of ownership has increased a little."
"ZAPI is kind of difficult to use. You know, it's SOAP-like, it's not really SOAP. I would like to see it more of a REST-based JSON, instead of XML."
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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