We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and VMware vSAN 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."Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"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."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"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 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."
"vSAN provides default HA configurations, where if any host goes down, the VM moves around within the host. Even though the disks are local, the VMs moves around with the vSAN disk and vSAN provides a high availability on its own."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is easy to deploy. It is easy to create and delete virtual servers. It is easy to create the load balancing and the clustering."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"VMware vSAN is a global solution, so we can manage all the storage solutions in one place. It's embedded in VCI solutions."
"It completely removes the need for a storage network and for a storage administrator and all of that infrastructure and the costs that are involved with them."
"Stretched Cluster is one of the big features that we use across multiple data centers."
"The most valuable feature is fhe flexibility, the ability to move the machines around without hesitation."
"The main advantage is that it's all in the box, with VMware vCenter Server product."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"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."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"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."
"On the DevOps side, if there could be more automation it would be more helpful."
"There's already a concern with VMware with ransomware and security issues. VMware could focus on improving security."
"Reporting currently depends on third party applications and that could be improved."
"We do see weird things crop up every now and again. It will say that a drive gets kicked off even though it's fine, and we have to re-add it."
"I would like to see some of the more traditional SAN functions that are out the now. I can list them: being able to Snapshot on the back-end, better de-dupe, and better compression. Those are the major ones."
"The ability to access SAN environments with fiber channels (or even NVMe) would be a good addition."
"I would like to see better performance graphs, maybe something that you can export outside to a different console, and maybe a little bit longer time period. The 18-hour maximum, or 24-hour maximum, is kind of short. Also, the hardware compatibility limitations are a little frustrating sometimes, but as everybody's starting to adopt vSAN more, you get more options for hardware."
"Pricing is something of a concern."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
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