We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"We've seen great enhancements from the performance point of view. There's good availability, stability, and continuity, but the performance actually has increased by 60 or 70%."
"The program is very stable."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature of Dell EMC XtremIO is the data protection (DP) group, it is one of the most advanced features in these types of arrays. The dedupe and compression that this array provides both do a superb job."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"The replication and mirroring features are very good."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance."
"We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"It is a bit expensive."
"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."
"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."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"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."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"The price of the All Flash solution is very high."
"I would like to see higher-capacity drives, as they come out; I have heard that 15 TB are out on a different NetApp series. Getting those on the EFs would be nice."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate data between All Flash and other NetApp storage systems."
"We need a center related to NetApp in Egypt so that we can deal with them directly."
"Their problems are on the software and the controlling of the storage where they lack segmentation and federation."
"NetApp could improve the speed of the rebuilding rate."
"A little more manageability, a simpler management interface. It's not necessarily that it's way overly complex. It's just that it's not as easy as the FAS series."
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Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera. See our Dell XtremIO vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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