We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"This solution is very scalable."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"Speed and reliability:"
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"Thin storage allocation"
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."
"The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We use it for our VDI environment, and have not had any complaints with it."
"The management software is very good."
"The replication and mirroring features are very good."
"It provides multi-protocol, which is what gives the edge when it comes to big lineage PC workloads."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"It is a bit expensive."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"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."
"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."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
"The price of the All Flash solution is very high."
"I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T"
"We have used IBM previously. We found that the storage from IBM was poor and we chose NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays because it can scale very easily."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
"The initial setup phase of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is not straightforward and needs improvement."
"Their problems are on the software and the controlling of the storage where they lack segmentation and federation."
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Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera. See our Dell XtremIO vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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