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."I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"The most valuable feature is the no-forklift upgrade. While the thing is running, I can change out the controllers one at a time and keep the customer up and running. I can add shelves and storage and SSD drives or spinning drives to the system, while it's running. I can bring all that in and rebalance the load across the new disks or, if we take disks away, rebalance the load across what's remaining, and it just works."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."
"They have a feature called Live Migrate; it's been very, very useful."
"The interface is easy to use which makes the product user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the speed for the end-user."
"One of the most valuable features is the capability to switch between all-flash to hybrid, which have have actually done for one of our arrays. We started with the hybrid, with the limited if I'm not mistaken, and then over a period of time, we swapped all the hybrids with the SSDs. This was one of the big features because it gave us the capability to not stick with just one kind of media. Secondly, since it has sorted clustering, we were able to bring in the newer boxes and have it all clustered together. These were the two main features that we really looked into, which benefited our use case from an expansion/growth perspective. Another valuable feature is the ease of management."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"Linear performance – The XtremIO wasn’t the fastest in all tests against other all flash arrays, but even with a massive workload, the response time and user experience were absolutely predictable with no sharp drop-offs."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"We mostly use it for backup, because we cannot measure anything, and we are afraid to use it for surveillance systems. We were planning to use it for mostly for surveillance systems."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"It needs to improve its price."
"It is a bit expensive."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"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."
"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."
"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"We had times that we needed a file service solution. We've used FluidFS, but it's a solution that is being transitioned out."
"An issue we had was that the controller went down during an upgrade because of their upgrading the code. One side of the switch was down."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered higher performance, at least on the back end."
"The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable."
"Overall, I'd like to see more synergy between Dell EMC's higher-tier platforms and their mid-tier platforms. What I have said, constantly, to my partners at Dell EMC is that the clear articulation of the path is really important to us. In that vein, what I'd also like to see is, with the migration strategy that's built into this product, a lot more attention paid to Dell's - in particular - legacy platforms and how we get from some of our legacy EMC platforms onto this platform with a straight-through migration and scaling strategy, not host-based migrations and not piecemeal... Dell EMC would do well to focus more on my ability to skip a generation, rather than having me take individual hops because I can't greenfield my way into a software-defined data center fast enough. This journey of multiple hops is not helpful."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"I would like hardware capacity additions to be a little more flexible. The upgrade path for the existing XTremIO units requires you to purchase 2 XBricks at a time and they need to be the same capacity as the existing XBricks."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"If you are looking at flash storage solutions, XtremIO doesn't offer any unique features. Most of my customers are migrating their workload from XtremIO to other formats because of this."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
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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