We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and Pure FlashArray X NVMe 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."This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"Support has been helpful."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"The first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The solution allows for easy, useful replication with good features for VPLEX and VIVO."
"The All-Flash models are pretty fast for the vast majority of our remote workloads."
"It is definitely one of the most robust, solid, well-performing products that I have dealt with. It is set it and forget it, which is pretty amazing."
"It has a very intuitive web console that runs in HTML5 and makes navigation and administration fairly easy."
"I like the ease of configuration, the quick setup and the fact that it seems to be hardened. We haven't had any issues with them. In terms of simplicity of ownership, once they're running you don't have to touch them. They're also simple to manage. We came from the VNXe 3200s so it's very similar."
"The storage management is superb, with a user-friendly graphical interface and dashboards. The performance is good. The integration, dashboards, and analytics are excellent. It gives me immediate output and quick access to the reports I need promptly. It's an excellent product with high stability. The solution is scalable. The support team is highly supportive, responsive, and efficient in providing solutions. This product is highly useful and well-suited for all types of automation."
"It is ease to use. It performs. It's easy to provision, and It's stable."
"Veeam Backup integration: Veeam is the defacto standard for backing up of virtual environments."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"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."
"Automation could be simplified."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"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."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"There is an issue with data duplication occurring on the flash memory. It should be improved. Timely updates and upgrades to the latest versions would be great."
"Scalability for the 650F is good, but I was expecting a little bit more."
"As the solution continues to grow and gain more traction, things will come up that will just continue to deepen the integration between VMware, vCenter, and all those other components. Anything in the divisibility there and additional tools is always great."
"Licensing costs could be reduced."
"The interface and configuration could improve."
"The user interface could use improvement."
"The VNX reporting is much more granular, versus the Unity reporting."
"Scalability of this solution could be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"The software layer has to improve."
"Right now, the box itself is just strictly working as a backend storage system. It would be fantastic if we could access it directly like a NAS device through network access or SIS drives. I think they have an interface, but I am not sure how good it is. If we could address a box directly on the network without having to go through a server, it would be great. The replication schemas could be improved. We are not using replication on the storage level right now. We use a different type of replication. If their replication would be as good as the one that we have, I would probably run the replication schema because it might be faster, but I don't know that for a fact. So, I cannot say that they have good replication. All I can say is that they need to inform us better."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is ranked 14th in All-Flash Storage with 28 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is rated 9.2. 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 Pure FlashArray X NVMe writes "Works well, is easy to implement, and has upgrade analysis capabilities". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas Pure FlashArray X NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Pure FlashArray X NVMe report.
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