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."Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The performance is very good."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"The program is very stable."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"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."
"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."
"I would say in terms of architecture and in terms of functionality, the product is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"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 most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"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."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."
"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."
"This solution would be improved if it were made to be more compatible with other products."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
"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."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
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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