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."It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"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."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"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."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"Thin storage allocation"
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"We can add a node, we add compute, we add storage, and we've had really good luck with that."
"If we get complaints about any kind of performance metric issues, whether it's storage related or something on the virtual side, we use it to pinpoint what the actual issue is."
"The square footage for doing development is at a premium when dealing with government networks. To be able to put a lot of IOPS in a lot of high-speed performing drives in a very small location which requires very little HVAC with very little power, it is very valuable to us."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"It's got full API functionality and the performance is pretty steady."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"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."
"The simplicity of it."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"They could improve the price."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"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."
"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."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
"They could do a file-based NAS: SolidFire NAS-based. It's probably not its niche, but that is our direction, not to use block, and it's block. Solid state block is what it is."
"The upgrade process could be better."
"The scalability of HCI or SolidFire as such isn't a concern, but when you compare it to PowerMax or NetApp AFF series devices, scalability is a concern because it's only the drives that are connected to the nodes. We don't have any shelf connectivity."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
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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