I would rate Dell XtremIO a nine out of ten. The solution has reached the end of its life and you need to check whether you get a replacement for Dell XtremIO. You can choose this product and we are happy with it. 

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As it has come to its end of life, you can't recommend it. It has been superseded by another Dell product.

I would rate Dell EMC XtremIO a seven out of ten.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Dell XtremIO 8 out of 10.

For those considering using it, I would recommend exploring all aspects of the solution, including HCI nodes, storage nodes, switches, security features, and backup and recovery options.

I recommend XtremIO primarily for big companies, but I would like to see improvements in terms of feature availability and reliability. Also, XtremIO doesn't support the IBM iSeries. 

I would rate this solution a five out of ten, right in the middle. It's missing a lot of features and has a lot of room for improvement. 

I would recommend this solution to others, it will make their life easier.

I rate Dell EMC XtremIO an eight out of ten.

Do an on-premise PoC to see how simple it is and test the performance.

Run through a Mitrend data analysis if you want an understanding of deduplication rates for the mileage you will get out of it.

You can run it to 100%. However, why would you want to risk of hitting the wall if you run out of storage?!

We had an established EMC footprint in our data center and a good relationship. Exploring their AFA made sense. To keep things honest, we evaluated other products and conducted a PoC with other vendors.

The XtremeIO product wasn’t always the fastest, but it was absolutely linear in performance and we encountered no issues. The PoC kept pricing honest as well.

Don’t use this product. There are better solutions out there.

Consider your migration methods to this array and know your data. For instance, if you are running Windows 2012 you may consider disabling ODX on the entire array which is disruptable or disabling on every single 2012 host. Talk to your SE about this.

Understand your workloads and use-cases. This is not a perfect solution for all flash workloads. If you cannot take advantage of deduplication and compression there may be better/cheaper solutions. If you want simplified replication, this is not the product for you. For us, performance wasn’t the prime driver. We wanted a scalable solution and our workloads could take advantage of deduplication extremely well so this was an obvious choice.

A testing and integration PoC needs to be done with full diligence.

Make sure you understand and check how EMC’s replication and licensing policy for replication works.

Also make sure you are at the latest code and fully understand how the grouping and clustering of hosts on the storage array works.

Our company didn’t send anyone to operations training until we had the unit for two years. I would advise you to send your technical expert to take the training early on.

I would make sure you do not put all your eggs in one basket on this hardware.

I would make sure updates have an extended down window and are prepared for the array to not service I/O during these updates as a worst case scenario.

It deduplicates well, but I would not run a database and the log files on the same array, to be safe.

Mileages vary, so please test the dedupe rate and performance metrics you are achieving for your workload, before implementing in production.

I wish we bought double the capacity but we only had so much to spend, as I would put every application/server on this array.

The XtremIO by itself without a virtualization layer has some drawbacks, like storage replication. I really would recommend them to install it in combination with a storage virtualization layer.

Be it XtremIO or anything else, you need to see that requirements are aligned with the following:

- Data Centre space and cost.
- Storage growth trend and capacity forecast.
- Application performance and requirements.
- Operational readiness and implementation timelines.

It's very good in terms of performance and the ease of use of its GUI. However, we had issues at the data corruption level, which resulted in multiple X-Brick failures. It's a big question for the stability and availability when we have enterprise level customers on such an Xtreme Performance array.

My advice to others would be to test it first to see the expected ratios. Do a check to see if they deliver what they promise. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. To make it a perfect ten, I would like to see better scalability. 

I would recommend XtremIO to others and give it a rating of seven out of ten.

Don’t consider it. Look at a platform that has actual support. EMC is a big name, but their support model is terrible with an even worse model for implementation. For a platform you literally can’t touch without them, you’re stranded on a desert island with no help in sight.

Make sure you understand the shutdown and redundancy for this product. Test these features to protect the storage controller’s journaling.

• Provide clear requirements
• Test to verify that the results are as expected
• Spend time to carefully integrate it into your support model, including reporting/dashboards and proactive monitoring.

Don't do it.

The flash market is saturated with vendors and their products. This product is an all-around solid player. However, make sure that deduplication is a major factor before purchasing. If snapshot and snapshot consolidation is key, then this is the product for you.

Dell XtremIO is an old product according to the current surge rate available in the market.

I would rate the solution a seven out of 10.

We've used multiple versions of the solution. We started with a legacy version from the VMAX 40K and then we went to the VMAX All-Flash 450FX. Currently, we are planning also to use PowerMax 8000. We use the on-premises deployment model. We don't deal with any cloud models.

I would rate the solution nine out of ten. I'm talking from the banking sector point of view. The banking sector is a more critical system. You have to keep your system up all day, all week, and you can not lose even a bit of transaction even for a millisecond or microsecond because you'll lose money. From my point of view, it's great, it's not like any other solution.

The performance of some of the features of the solution is very powerful. XtremIO was powerful enough to allow us to disable features of other items.

If I didn't have to think about the cost, I would rate the solution ten out of ten. This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive.

XtremIO is a good solution. I would rate it an 8 out of 10.

We are using the on-premises deployment model.

My advice to those who plan on implementing the solution is to make sure you are doing accurate sizing. Don't just size for your current use only.

I would rate the solution nine out of ten.

A proof of concept will provide the best results for determining what solution you should go for.

If you have the workloads that require the performance that XtremIO provides, without having to consider what workloads you are throwing at this array, then this solution is for you.

This solution is good for VDI environments, but not recommended for database workloads.

Make sure you understand the basic fundamentals of SAN, IOPS, and data deduplication.

Overall, including the format, support, and technical performance, I would rate it as seven of ten.

I am a partner for Dell EMC.

My complaints are not about the features of this solution, it's more about the pricing and the support.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Once you use it, you will not regret it.

Overall, I think that this is a good product.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

I would recommend this solution to someone considering it.