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."Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"Support has been helpful."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"Technical support is good."
"The scalability is really good now that they have the Dynamic Pools. We don't always have the money to buy complete write sets when we have to expand the storage, so now with the Dynamic Pools we can add disks on the go."
"I have found Dell EMC Unity XT to be stable."
"Using this solution has meant that I do not need to look for different partners to provide me with solutions like a backup service. Dell provides end to end solutions."
"Real Unified Storage (Block, File, VVols) in a unique 2U hardware."
"The NAS is also extremely easy to set up."
"The performance combined with the gig-per-dollar value is a combination that is superior to other storage options."
"Purchasing; We worked with a sales rep to purchase our Unity."
"It has improved the utilization of our own internal resources and performance across our managed service platform, meeting our customers SLAs."
"This product has good performance."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"It could be improved in the area of management flexibility. For example, I really need to set read-only access for LUNs, and there's no such option with Unity XT."
"The storage processors have less port expansion than previous high-end VNX arrays. Data compression is only available in all-flash pools."
"We are running VMware, and with the VNXe it was possible to restore. We're using Veeam for VMware backups and with the predecessor, it was possible to mount a backup or restore a backup from a storage snapshot. With the Unity 300, this is not possible."
"The uses of tools to communicate with EMC directly. With EMC, I am not able to connect and resolve issues without assistance, so they can't do unattended maintenance on devices, which would be a massive benefit if they could."
"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."
"Compression and block deduplication on non-all-flash solutions."
"Perhaps if they added more 10GB ports to the back of the system, so you have more IOPS out of the box itself to the network, that would help."
"Dell Unity XT’s price needs improvement."
"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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