We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and SolidFire 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 console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"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."
"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."
"It is great for applications like Microsoft Exchange, ERP, SQL and VDI; basically saved the VDI buy-in from users, as now performance was seamless in comparison to a physical PC."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We can just buy them, scale them as we need on demand, and we don't have to spend so many front end cycles on designing the architecture."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"The scalability and being able to implement it quickly."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"The provisioning process is efficient and doesn't demand higher latency, ensuring optimal data transfer performance which is particularly valuable for tasks like data mining, where quick results are essential."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"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."
"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."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"I would like to see integration with the cloud, number one. Being able to spin SolidFire in the cloud."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while SolidFire 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our Dell XtremIO vs. SolidFire report.
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