We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and NetApp NVMe AFF A800 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."The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"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%."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"It is great for applications like Microsoft Exchange, ERP, SQL and VDI; basically saved the VDI buy-in from users, as now performance was seamless in comparison to a physical PC."
"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."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"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."
"NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is easier to use than some other solutions and the UI is very good to use for day-to-day activities. Overall, the solution has good technology."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O."
"During the use cases of the solution, its reliability and suitability are the best."
"The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally."
"Over the eight years, we've been using NetApp with ONTAP, we've never lost a bit of data, and we've only experienced a few minutes of downtime in that entire time."
"We find the product to be very flexible."
"The most valuable features are stability and performance."
"Low latency is the most valuable feature."
"The price should be lower."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"It was not proactive communication."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"It needs a way to determine the deduplication of each LUN and what the impact would be if we were to move data from one LUN to another."
"Increasing the RAM, and including physical cords would be beneficial."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The product’s UI could be better."
"The initial setup should be easier, and more like a plug-and-play approach."
"The support can take a few days to have a response. However, the response that we do receive is very informative."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better."
"Stability is an area with a certain shortcoming where the solution needs to improve"
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked 17th in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is rated 8.8. 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 NVMe AFF A800 writes "Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI ". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Dell XtremIO vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 report.
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