We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and Pure FlashArray X NVMe 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."Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"Speed and reliability:"
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"The solution is scalable."
"The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"Automation could be simplified."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"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."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"Management: At the time, there was no snapshot scheduler, so I had to write XSnapCourier to address it. The sad thing is that even after the newest release, which includes a native scheduler, most customers using XSnapCourier chose to stick with it due to a more feature-rich experience."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"In fututre releases, some focus on anti-malware should be there."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is ranked 14th in All-Flash Storage with 28 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is rated 9.2. 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 Pure FlashArray X NVMe writes "Works well, is easy to implement, and has upgrade analysis capabilities". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas Pure FlashArray X NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Dell XtremIO vs. Pure FlashArray X NVMe report.
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