We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and IBM FlashSystem 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 speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The performance is very good."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"We mostly use it for backup, because we cannot measure anything, and we are afraid to use it for surveillance systems. We were planning to use it for mostly for surveillance systems."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"Thin storage allocation"
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"Linear performance – The XtremIO wasn’t the fastest in all tests against other all flash arrays, but even with a massive workload, the response time and user experience were absolutely predictable with no sharp drop-offs."
"IBM FlashSystem has an easy to use GUI, similar to the IBM Storewize family, which make it one of the best flash storage systems in the market."
"High availability and enhanced security; Proven dependability; Data compression with hardware acceleration; Advanced copy services features are all in this product."
"The solution is scalable and has varying degrees of scalability."
"The GUI is very easy and performance is also good."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Virtualization of external storage, while adding cache and speed to the external storage."
"The maintenance service and support from IBM is very good."
"The Flash core models offer amazing performance."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"I would like hardware capacity additions to be a little more flexible. The upgrade path for the existing XTremIO units requires you to purchase 2 XBricks at a time and they need to be the same capacity as the existing XBricks."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"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."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"If you are looking at flash storage solutions, XtremIO doesn't offer any unique features. Most of my customers are migrating their workload from XtremIO to other formats because of this."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
"I would like to see bigger modules."
"The ease of installation should be improved. We had issues with the configuration model."
"The product needs to improve their scalability."
"AHV is Acropolis Hypervisor – A relatively new Hypervisor, robust and stable as VMware vSphere, has built-in advanced analytics and powerful operations, Self Service Portal and components for DevOps included, managed by a single pane of glass (Prism) via HTML5 and it is free of charge – That is why Nutanix is so advanced and revolutionary."
"Customization features must be improved."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"The interface of this solution could be improved."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Dell XtremIO vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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