We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and INFINIDAT InfiniBox 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 speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"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 stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"Technical support is good."
"It is easy to manage overall. It is all web-based. It has a an easy, nice dashboard. I receive emails if there are issues. When there are any updates, I receive emails. I can either do them on my own, but normally I schedule them with Dell EMC and they remote in, then it's done."
"The All-Flash models are pretty fast for the vast majority of our remote workloads."
"I like that the performance is very good."
"We can sleep at night because the support is great."
"I like the easy management with the new Unisphere management and the HTML5 interface."
"It has reduced complexity."
"Unified block and file storage without the need of control stations and data movers. This simplifies administration and deployment and requires less rack space."
"The most valuable feature is that the solution is a hybrid system, so you can do both block and file storage."
"This product has good performance."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"It was not proactive communication."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"If you compare it with VMAX, where we communicate with the box through Solutions Enabler and there are a lot of commands and a lot of flexibility, the command line for Unity needs to enhanced."
"The pre-sales technical support and technical engagement could be made better for this product."
"Licensing has been quite difficult. It doesn't always auto-license. About half the time, when I provision one, I have to contact Service to get a license, or even go to our account manager to help get it straightened out."
"I would like better monitoring capabilities: more historical data with more insight into the performance for the database. We now use a separate tool for it. Therefore, it would be nice if we could have that straight from the tool."
"In the dashboard there could be notification of duplicate files and the like, so we don't have to rely on Windows to do that."
"I don't know where the hybrid cloud might be going or what connectivity there is between what was recently released as far as AWS and being able to manage both of them. Maybe there is an on-prem and an AWS instance in the same window, like a single pane, but I would like to see something along those lines, where there wouldn't be two locations to manage storage."
"Problems with I/O modules, with bugs that came out that really should have been caught before the product was released."
"It could be a little easier to attach it to a network file system."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
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Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell XtremIO, VMware vSAN, HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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