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."Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"The scalability is good."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"The most valuable feature of Dell EMC XtremIO is the data protection (DP) group, it is one of the most advanced features in these types of arrays. The dedupe and compression that this array provides both do a superb job."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"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."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"The program is very stable."
"The initial setup was really straightforward. It was not complex. Deployment took one month, due to the data migration duration."
"High availability and enhanced security; Proven dependability; Data compression with hardware acceleration; Advanced copy services features are all in this product."
"The valuable features for us are the extra add-ons, such as the FIM provisioning, the compression, the disaster recovery capabilities, and the storage pooling functions."
"Flash disk with Easy Tier option"
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"IBM FlashSystem is a powerful effective storage solution. Additionally, it is user-friendly, anyone can use it."
"Data deduplication is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"FlashSystem offers proven technology in a compact package."
"The solution is not cheap."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"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."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"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 implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"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."
"We've encountered challenges in integrating other products with Dell Xtremio, as it tends to be more vendor-locked. This means we can't easily explore other solutions that might work alongside Dell."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"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."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"The interface could improve in IBM FlashSystem."
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"The product needs to improve their scalability."
"It has room for improvement in the area of stability."
"It is slightly more expensive, however, it all depends on your supplier."
"Our model does not support compression or deduplication."
"One area for improvement is in the GUI, where host clusters are not properly dealt with. With Hypervisor host clusters, all hosts must see the same volumes in the same order. Using the concept of a “host-group” has been around (even with IBM) for many years, so why not with the V7000?"
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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