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."They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"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."
"Speed and reliability:"
"The installation is nice and easy."
"Data deduplication is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"I like most of the features. Its speed, performance, and availability are valuable. We are implementing the data reduction technology the most."
"User friendly management interface."
"Speed (IOPS/second) – It is most vital for applications that need low latency and high speed for transferring the data."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"The Flash core models offer amazing performance."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"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."
"It is very expensive to scale. You have to buy an additional system to extend from one disc, for instance. It is scalable, but extremely expensive to do so."
"This solution needs a management console where we are alerted to issues and can report them, or escalate them through email or another method."
"If you want to expand, you cannot expand the disc enclosure. You have to buy a total individual node. Sometimes, this is difficult because we are just looking for capacity and not a node."
"The technical support in my region is satisfactory but it could improve. Support is very important for customers and downtime is very critical for us. We would like onsite or complete technical support which can help us to minimize our downtime or if problems occur."
"The product needs to improve their scalability."
"The interface of this solution could be improved."
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"The pricing could be improved, but I think it's getting better and better with each version. IBM needs to implement NAS storage again, as this is a big flaw. Dell EMC is very good at this and if you compared them based on NAS storage, Dell EMC would win right away. IBM's solution for NAS storage is very complicated. We don't have a storage box that provides file sharing from itself, we have to put software on it and go through a whole complicated process. It should be simplified."
"We use some open-source tools for monitoring, such as Grafana and it should be bundled along with IBM FlashSystem."
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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