Dell XtremIO Scalability

Gouranga Maiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Project Manager -IT at ITC Ltd

Dell XtremIO is highly scalable and I would rate it a ten out of ten. My company has 2000 users for the product. We use the solution 24/7 since the last seven years. 

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JB
IT Manager - Storage & Backup at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We have not specifically had scalability problems. Upgrade paths are fixed.

Paths, capacity, and performance scale as X-Bricks are added.

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DM
Infrastructure Systems Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability has an upper limit, so it's difficult to scale to a certain extent, or to an enterprise, level, but it simply runs out. There is a limit to how far you can go.

We have 20,000 users with varied workloads from SAP, SharePoint, and Exchange.

We intend to replace it with something else or to upgrade it as it comes to its end of life.

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LD
IT Project Management /Research & Development Team Leader at Ethiopian Roads Administration

Dell XtremIO is highly scalable, both in terms of hardware and other aspects. It integrates well with various virtualization platforms and firmware.

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AnjaneyaVara Prasad - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is good. The option to scale out is available on XtremIO. 

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RR
Technical Consultant at Fidelity International

Dell EMC XtremIO is scalable and it is easy to do. However, we cannot have more than four bricks.

We have approximately 10 people in the storage team who use the solution and 5,000 use the services in my organization. 

The solution is used on a daily basis. The media profiles are launched for each user and it communicates to the Dell EMC XtremIO daily.

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it_user651555 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did have some initial issues, given the 3.x version we were on. We ended up migrating from 10TB bricks to a 20TB brick cluster when we upgraded.

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it_user650013 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We have not had any issues with scalability.

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it_user641274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not had any scalability issues.

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it_user560211 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Storage Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user560262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Storage Engineer at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

None that weren’t expected. This is a scale out product, not scale up or scale up and out. You can go from 1 XIO brick to 2, 2 to 4 and then 4 to 8. If you know this up front it is very easy to plan around.

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AW
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user640419 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Network Administrtor at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

It didn't expand to the second Node X-2, although that was a stated option.

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CS
Systems Engineer Senior at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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AN
AGT Infrastructure Operations at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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CT
IT Operations Manager at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

We had no issues with scalability.

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it_user647409 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer IAAS at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We did not immediately have scaling issues. Scaling up is, in fact, very easy. Just “buy” an X-brick of 40TB and plug it in. The system does the rebalancing automatically. Since we use a VPLEX, the scaling limitation lies with the VPLEX.

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RR
Technical Consultant at a recreational facilities/services company with 11-50 employees

Scalability was non-hazardous and even online.

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RJ
Technical Specialist Storage at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

No, in terms of scalability, we didn't encounter issues. It was very easy to add X-Bricks to the system.

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TB
IT Architect at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We had some difficulty when we tried to expand our XtremIO because it had to be done in a certain way and only EMC personnel were allowed to do it. That wasn't very flexible. But it seems to be better in the new version. Scalability is always a problem. 

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LD
IT Project Management /Research & Development Team Leader at Ethiopian Roads Administration

XtremIO is scalable - it has expansion charges so that you can extend your storage size.

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it_user643908 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

There is a limit to scalability, but we have not reached it yet.

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it_user651519 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We have not had scalability issues.

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it_user566712 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

We had scalability issues. It does not scale in a granular manner.

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TD
Director of Infrastructure Services at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We understand the way the platform can scale, so we scale within the parameters.

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Ahmed Essa - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Share Technologies

XtremIO is scalable from one engine to maybe eight engines.

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it_user851880 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is very good. We can easily upgrade and move from one generation to another.

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CO
Director at STORAGECORP Tecnologia

Scability of Dell EMC XtremIO could be better.

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HZ
Data Center Manager at overit

The solution is scalable for SMBs.

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AW
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Yes , I do recall we had an issue with a version of code on XtremeIO before we could Scale.

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it_user651834 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Solutions Director, Converged Infrastructure at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have consumed ~756GB of disk on a 2-brick cluster and have much more than the physical capacity of the system provisioned. There have been no problems with scalability at all.

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it_user566907 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user650010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have not had scalability issues.

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MA
Regional Technical Manager CST at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability of this solution is good.

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it_user568230 - PeerSpot reviewer
Windows Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user351513 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, EMEA Datacenter and Database Operations at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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SP
G. Manager- Technical Services with 51-200 employees

Scaling this product is not easy.

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Buyer's Guide
Dell XtremIO
April 2024
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