We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The reliability is very good."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Thin storage allocation"
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"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 solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"It has enterprise data services with consolidated storage data protection and disaster recovery. One valuable aspect is its efficiency as a robust platform. There is an ease of managing all processes. The data recovery process is remarkably fast. It’s a stable solution. The product is scalable. It provides high-speed live migration capability."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"It is a bit expensive."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"We've encountered challenges in integrating other products with Dell Xtremio, as it tends to be more vendor-locked. This means we can't easily explore other solutions that might work alongside Dell."
"In some cases where we don’t need the flexibility of the virtualization layer, we could free up resources on the VPLEX by using the storage replication."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"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."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"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 would like to see more scalability."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"Areas for improvement would be the memory setting and the CPU setting reserve features, which are not available on Acropolis. I also feel that the DR solution, the reporting, and the component that is combined with the Nutanix OSP need to be improved."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
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Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 192 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Dell XtremIO vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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