We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and Dell XtremIO 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."We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"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."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"Integration; We use the product with VMware, and also use it with Syft for home directory and departmental shares."
"I like that when you log in it gives you a dashboard of what your storage looks like."
"The most valuable feature is the performance. It's still an all-flash array at a good price point."
"The most valuable features include snapshots, Thin Clones, and deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the dynamic cache of this product. It is very important. We have the physical cache and we can boost this cache using disks. All the products are mainly flash now and this is one of the main characteristics which our customers like."
"It's a much smaller footprint than our older storage arrays, which take up some six tiles, a lot of space in the data center. The Unity's are a lot smaller, and they're a lot faster."
"The most valuable feature is the fast cache with functionality rewrite."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"The performance is good, which is important."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"It is a bit expensive."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"Thick provisioning of LUNs."
"Licensing has been quite difficult. It doesn't always auto-license. About half the time, when I provision one, I have to contact Service to get a license, or even go to our account manager to help get it straightened out."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately one hour. However, the full process was not as simple as IBM."
"We are running VMware, and with the VNXe it was possible to restore. We're using Veeam for VMware backups and with the predecessor, it was possible to mount a backup or restore a backup from a storage snapshot. With the Unity 300, this is not possible."
"You can't use every feature, because it costs in performance. Therefore, you have to choose which features to use to achieve a better environment. That is why customers do not use every feature in Unity."
"It needs deduplication. We'd like to have the dedupe capabilities in the Unity."
"The NAS capabilities of Unity - I have to say there are a lot of things I miss. For example, deduplication for hybrid. I have tons of customers with VNX and dedupe. These customers achieve around 50% dedupe efficiency and they mostly use them for archive. If you're talking about 50TB of NAS, which is stored in a 25TB repository, which is very economical, and you can not provide that in a Unity hybrid box, you have problems."
"We do a lot of VMware. It only integrates with VMware in one way, which is virtual volumes. I don't really have any visibility on anything else. From VMware, I can't look into Unity. From Unity, I can't look into VMware unless I am using virtual volumes, where they integrate together happily, but we are not using that. I would like better integration for non-virtual volume VMware use."
"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 management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 29 reviews while Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 3 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Price / Quality ratio is good and since OE 5.03 code the array family reached a rather good maturity level". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF, INFINIDAT InfiniBox and VMware vSAN. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Dell XtremIO report.
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