We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"Its most valuable feature is the storage alarm."
"The scalability is really good now that they have the Dynamic Pools. We don't always have the money to buy complete write sets when we have to expand the storage, so now with the Dynamic Pools we can add disks on the go."
"They've integrated NAS and SAN pretty well. It made replication very simple. Because one of our systems has a lot of LANs, for it to replicate we have Consistency Groups in there. That's something that is really helpful, making sure that everything is working not just for replication but for backups as well."
"Via a click, we can deploy a data store or LUN to the ESX host. We can also deploy VVOLs to the ESX server."
"This product is perfect for small, and mid-range customers who need to pay less, but still, get enterprise-level capabilities."
"I have had no problem at all. I think this is one of the most important things. It is very good. Maintaining it and deploying updates require very low maintenance. We haven't had problems. We had to replace a couple of disks in all these years, but it was pretty straightforward."
"The Unity XT box is very strong. It doesn't break. The MTBF time is very large so you don't have to worry about faults or outages in your operations."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with vCenter."
"It's actually shaking hands with the workflow solutions much better than any other storage."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"I miss storage groups. Now, if I have to add a LUN to a cluster, multiple host, I have to know which host is in that cluster. I have to write it down and that makes it hard. In VNX and earlier, I could simply put a LUN on a storage group and every host in the group had the LUN. This lack bothers me a lot because it takes a lot of time and mistakes are made. Sometimes, a Hyper-V host gets a VMware LUN and vice-versa. Not good."
"It's not as reliable as it should be, I think it was probably released a little early. We've had production problems with customers, and there are still some challenges at scale as well. Compression is a problem for the system. Once you enable dedupe and compression, the performance of the system, the capability, halves... It has to be right-sized and sized for compression, but even with that, because there are only two storage processors, you're ending up at almost 40 percent usage."
"Our request to Dell EMC for improvement was in the reporting and monitoring areas. Dell EMC built up a cloud ID so that we could see the overall storage numbers. We needed to have the proper KPIs to be able to see and manage things."
"We noticed in the last release of code that there were some inefficiencies around getting our data efficiency up in terms of dedupe and compression."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say its capacity and its connection."
"The solution can use improvement with the patch cluster like the Synchron and Active replication."
"This product lacks deduplication and compression at the current version 4.1.0. LACP is not available for iSCSI either."
"We did encounter a firmware bug which actually caused loss of data. There was some heartburn around that. But in general, it has operated as expected, except for that bug."
"It has to be flexible according to the customer's requirements. It has to be aligned with the customer business and the business environment."
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Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is ranked 34th in All-Flash Storage. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System writes "Has a fantastic feature-set and works well with workflow solutions". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System is most compared with .
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