We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and Dell XtremIO 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 stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"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."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"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 management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The flexibility of this solution has been valuable for our business."
"The user interface is good, I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"The solution is stable."
"We replicate between SAN to SAN for a lot of features and supportability. It also helps us when we want to upgrade to a newer SC Series or move the data from one data center to another."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"It's very scalable, especially with federation. If you outgrow the number of spindles that a unit can support, depending on the model, you can go into federation."
"The most valuable feature is the speed for the end-user."
"Technical support is very good. I do use it from time to time and it's always excellent."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"The file functionality could be better."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"This solution could be improved if overall performance was improved and operated with a higher speed and supported a higher volume of RAM."
"Licensing, especially on the storage line, could use some simplification. It's not terrible, but, for example, with the Isilon series, they've gone to completely a la carte. A la carte is very difficult to traverse, as to what you need. It would be more beneficial, at least from my point of view as a customer, if they did it more like car companies do, where there are package lines"
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"I would like to have 100% functionality through the web app."
"The ease of use could be improved. It took me a while to learn it."
"The administration and support (on the way that they delivered) was a little bit slow."
"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."
"We have seen some degraded throughput with mixed workloads. We have been working with Dell EMC to correct some of these latency issues."
"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."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox. See our Dell SC Series vs. Dell XtremIO report.
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