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."The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The hardware itself, it differs from Compellent and differs from the VNX before it. It doesn't have a separate file harbor that goes with it, there are no separate NAS heads. It's 2U, you have file and block storage, so you get a quite a lot of services for a small footprint."
"Setup is simple."
"All-flash array eliminates all the overhead of tiering and a lot of the data structuring overhead involved."
"Stable flash storage platform with good scalability, efficiency, and speed."
"The flash aspects of the Unity make it incredibly fast. The fact that you get that much storage directly on what is basically a 3U box to us, that density has been really useful."
"The replication is big for us. We use file services on Unity and it has a really nice file services interface. It's also easy to manage. It's really easy in terms of provisioning, replication. There are no real tricks to it. It's just easy."
"It has the same operating system for both file and block, and it actually simplifies everything. And it's much smaller compared to VNX."
"Their support cases are all handed through the portal. The support contacts me when they need to do upgrades. It has been great. It's all very well-handled, scheduled, and performed."
"Thin storage allocation"
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Replication with VMware - it's called the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster - is lacking in the Unity and is present in Compellent."
"The solution can use improvement with the patch cluster like the Synchron and Active replication."
"We would like an AI feature that would protect the backup and minimize the consumed space so we can maintain the quality of the backup. This would help us minimize our IT cost in terms of the backup procedures."
"It would be better if there were more integrations."
"It needs deduplication. We'd like to have the dedupe capabilities in the Unity."
"The initial setup is not so straightforward if you don't have experience with storage arrays."
"The user interface could be improved. The Dell Compellent user interface is fantastic, but the Unity user interface is, in comparison, pretty lousy. It's functional, and I can do what I need, but the Dell Compellent user interface is so much more intuitive and user-friendly."
"It is expensive, and the pricing could be better."
"In some cases where we don’t need the flexibility of the virtualization layer, we could free up resources on the VPLEX by using the storage replication."
"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."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6. 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 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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