We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"We've seen great enhancements from the performance point of view. There's good availability, stability, and continuity, but the performance actually has increased by 60 or 70%."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"To me, VMware is a leader of the visualizations. I think everyone just follow VMware."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSAN are that it receives updates frequently, has good compression, optimized storage, and they provide webinars on what is new. Additionally, the integration with third-party products is good and it is easy to manage."
"By eliminating dependency on that back-end storage, we now depend on everything that's in the VMkernel with vSAN. We eliminate the middleman."
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"The valuable features are its scalability and the standardization - one size fits all. It's also intuitive and easy to use because one size fits all. Obviously, it scales out, but it's the same solution at every physical location I manage."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"Storage is expandable with no extra cost."
"The ease of use is great."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"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."
"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."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"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."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
"It could be more robust. The latency is also an issue for us, and the reliability. I would like it to be faster and a little more flexible."
"I would like for the next release to be a bit cheaper."
"If we have some complicated issues, you have to use the command lines interface. Not everything is possible to be fixed in the GUI. This is a drawback, that some things have to be fixed via command-line interface and should be able to be done in the GUI."
"Improvements can be made with respect to scalability."
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
"The stability needs to be improved."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 219 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
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