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's extremely stable and has good performance."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"Running SAP on Pure Storage helps a lot without doing any further tuning to improve application performance. Our internal clients are happy."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"The ease of use, the SnapMirror capabilities, the cloning, and the efficiencies are all good features."
"I would say the consistency with the ONTAP versions and the speed and performance from the flash."
"Organizations can reduce data storage footprint and lower power and cooling costs, helping to adopt "Green IT.""
"Most of our business-critical systems are provisioned from the NetApp AFF system. Compared to others, we have a minimal latency. Configuring the DR for high availability or migrating the volumes from one box to another is pretty easy with NetApp AFF."
"The most valuable features of AFF are its speed and the responsive support from NetApp."
"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."
"The technical support is fantastic. No one else is like their team. We're happy with them."
"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."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"The solution is not cheap."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"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."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"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."
"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."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"They should make these features a little more affordable."
"I just got through the session where it looks like they are going to support Oracle running on Linux with SnapCenter. That is one of the main things that we are hoping to get integrated."
"NetApp should have a local presence in Pakistan."
"The dashboard needs improvement. The dashboard needs some uplift"
"With some of the larger clusters being able to do a patch upgrade is helping. They still take three, four hours by the time you get the night started, finish things up, do the upgrade."
"We have had issues with CIFS presentations and outages, so if that was removed, we could do seamless upgrades without affecting CIFS presentations. That would be an advantage. That's about the only improvement I can think of."
"On the fiber channel side, there is a limit of sixteen terabytes on each line, and we would like to see this raised because we are having to use some other products."
"NetApp should offer more training so everyone can learn about the products. Other vendors have a lot of training options. It would be great if NetApp would highlight how to use the features more so that every admin or person can gain more knowledge about this technology."
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 NetApp FAS Series. See our Dell XtremIO vs. NetApp AFF report.
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