We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Dell XtremIO 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 most valuable feature is its speed."
"The technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"It has good stability for our company."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"It's actually very stable"
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"Enterprise Cloud Storage is the most valuable feature, along with the data services which come with it, plus the deduplication and compression."
"It was easy for teams to pick up the technology with very limited exposure and training, then implement and support it."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerMax NVMe is its replication feature."
"There is no management overhead involved in optimizing performance. It does it so well on its own. We don't have to manage much at all. It really is like a set it and forget it solution. My storage engineers love the system. It is a lot less work than our previous systems, which weren't bad by any means. There is not nearly as much management as before. So, we are saving dozens of hours per month for our storage team, and that is a real cost in our business."
"The stability is great. It is five nines."
"The solution's snapshot capabilities and replication are very good features. Snapshots are allowing us to quickly build analytical models directly from production data. This gives us amazing insights into market trends and allows us to build more effective trading algorithms. Replication offers us unparalleled levels of resilience."
"It is a very stable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the performance and compression. The most useful tool is CloudIQ."
"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."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"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%."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"It was not proactive communication."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"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."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"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."
"I would like them to continue improving the management tools and continue moving towards a RESTful API versus CLI."
"I believe it would be of great benefit to work on the customization of the pricing structure for different enterprises and their specific needs."
"I'd like to see the dedup and compression improve. Two to one is not very good. We should be getting something like three, four, or five to one."
"The installation of equipment needed support's help."
"It's a relatively new product, but for the next release I would like to see higher bandwidth on the front-end adapters. This would allow even greater scalability for critical workloads and consolidation for non-critical workloads. The hosts may not require that level of I/O performance today. However, it allows us to scale physical non-cloud environments without large investment."
"The technical support is lacking. We are working with Dell EMC to get some better understanding of this."
"Remove the need for physical or hardwired virtual servers to run consistency groups, instead make the expensive array controllers handle that."
"Support of the product can be slow and an administrative challenge: planning, scheduling, and overseeing data center access for a Dell EMC rep. One improvement could be to enable a self-maintenance option. The requirements that we go through to get Dell EMC onsite to replace failed drives, power supplies, and other small redundant parts can be unnecessarily complex. If simplified, they could send us the parts, then we could replace them much faster, more easily, and truly within the SLA parameters."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"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."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, INFINIDAT InfiniBox and VMware vSAN. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Dell XtremIO report.
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