Dell XtremIO Reviews

Reduced the Oracle database refresh times (10TB) from 48 hours to 4 hours.

• I/O performance and low latency
• Deduplication and cloning capability

Management and reporting need improvement. Cloning could be easier.

We have not had stability issues.

We have not had scalability issues.

Technical support is excellent.

We used EMC VMAX. Latency was inconsistent and it lacked cloning and deduplication.

Cloning was complicated due to necessary scripting.

We evaluated Oracle Exadata, EMC VMAX (SSD), and EMC VMAX.

• Provide clear requirements
• Test to verify that the results are as expected
• Spend time to carefully integrate it into your support model, including reporting/dashboards and proactive monitoring.

None of the features are valuable for us. The product is poorly designed and not reliable. It performed well when it did work.

We have had no benefits from this product. It produced an outage and didn't deliver on promises made by the sales and engineering teams.

It needs a lot of improvement to be more like Pure Storage or Nimble AFAs.

We have been using this product for a year.

We had stability issues. We ran out of space pretty quickly and the cost to scale did not match our needs.

We had scalability issues. It does not scale in a granular manner.

The technical support is horrible. It took a week for them to get back to us on what caused the outage. Also, there are too many different teams that support the product internally.

We used EMC VMAX. We switched because EMC made it too costly to stay on VMAX and gave us discounts on XtremIO.

The initial setup was complex. We hired someone to do it. It took them two days. Our new array was done by my team in less than two hours.

EMC has not delivered on promises with their array. We have been with them for seven years and had five different arrays. Same story every time. Worst support in the industry.

We evaluated Pure Storage, Nimble, and SolidFire.

Don't do it.

Our organization has seen our customers' performance increase substantially for their database and VDI applications using this product.

Compression and deduplication are valuable because they help reduce the storage footprint required for our customer’s environments.

Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes.

The GUI is still Java based, and this needs to be fixed. 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.

There have been some stability issues with the code that have been corrected in later versions.

We understand the way the platform can scale, so we scale within the parameters.

I would give technical support a rating of 7/10.

Our customers switched from the older generation of VNX to XtremIO. It was ten times faster and deduplication/compression allowed for a much smaller footprint in the data center.

The initial setup can be complex if there is an issue during the setup. Otherwise, this is not too bad to install.

Pricing and licensing are in line with other products from other manufacturers. You get what you pay for.

At the time, we did not evaluate other alternatives.

The flash market is saturated with vendors and their products. This product is an all-around solid player. However, make sure that deduplication is a major factor before purchasing. If snapshot and snapshot consolidation is key, then this is the product for you.

Dell XtremIO provides great performance. The IOPS is less than one millisecond. Because of this, many telecom companies are working with this solution. They are dependent on XtremIO as their main storage source on their side.

Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads.

Dell XtremIO needs to provide better performance to keep up with new products.

I have been using Dell XtremIO for six years.

This solution is stable.

XtremIO is scalable from one engine to maybe eight engines.

Dell's technical support provides a good response time.

Neutral

The initial setup of Dell XtremIO was good and took less than an hour to complete. 

There are many new products with more features coming, such as Pure Storage. XtremIO is coming to its end of life. We will not be implementing this solution in the future.

The license for XtremIO is in the box, so you don't have to buy anything.

Dell XtremIO is an old product according to the current surge rate available in the market.

I would rate the solution a seven out of 10.

We use the solution primarily in the banking system.

It's a great solution. We have 100% high availability and 100% business continuity. All our banking is All-Flash behind the VPLEX. 

We've seen great enhancements from the performance point of view. There's good availability, stability, and continuity, but the performance actually has increased by 60 or 70%.

The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, it could use a little bit of automation. 

The stability of the solution is very good. It may even be the best of the best if you compare it to the competition.

The scalability is very good. We can easily upgrade and move from one generation to another.

Technical support is very good. It's one of the best vendors for support.

The initial setup was straightforward. 

How long deployment takes depends on the platform. For example, on VMAX All-Flash, the initial configuration, and the provisioning took about three or four days. We were executing the hard work, including laying the cables, and all the break and fix stuff. 

We had a consultant assist with the deployment.

We've used multiple versions of the solution. We started with a legacy version from the VMAX 40K and then we went to the VMAX All-Flash 450FX. Currently, we are planning also to use PowerMax 8000. We use the on-premises deployment model. We don't deal with any cloud models.

I would rate the solution nine out of ten. I'm talking from the banking sector point of view. The banking sector is a more critical system. You have to keep your system up all day, all week, and you can not lose even a bit of transaction even for a millisecond or microsecond because you'll lose money. From my point of view, it's great, it's not like any other solution.

I'm able to deploy a scalable amount of virtual machines from images of hundreds of gigabytes per second.

The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication.

It's not an improvement so much as a query. What I'm curious about is whether or not the feature has the ability to do inline data reduction between two physical storage solutions. If we have one storage solution in the UK and the other in Australia, will the system be able to tell us what we have already, so we aren't sending 95% of our data across the world unnecessarily? I know that the feature works locally on the source solution. What I'm curious about is, would that data reduction feature work between two instances of XtremIO in two different places.

It was the company's choice to switch to this solution. I don't remember what we had beforehand. I think that they made the switch because we knew we were going to have a large amount of data. The data reduction deduplication that this solution offered was very valuable. We knew that if we were going to be doing an extremely high amount of the right operation, the inline data reduction would be valuable as well. 

The performance of some of the features of the solution is very powerful. XtremIO was powerful enough to allow us to disable features of other items.

If I didn't have to think about the cost, I would rate the solution ten out of ten. This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive.

We are a partner with Dell and our specialization is storage.

Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good.

XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability.

Scability of Dell EMC XtremIO could be better.

We also use PowerStore which we find easier to implement.

XtremIO is too high priced, especially in Brazil.

XtremIO is a good solution. I would rate it an 8 out of 10.