We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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."It worked flawlessly."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"Support has been helpful."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"The solution is stable."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"The compression is excellent."
"The solution's technical support is excellent. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"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 Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"It was not proactive communication."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"When it comes to Dell PowerStore, I would like to see more integration and more security features included. It's unfortunate that the solution does not feature Flash trace."
"More demonstration and training options are needed."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"The upgrades themselves are running fine, but after the upgrade is when we have a problem. With the update to 1.4, we had a head crash. They told us, 'This is a known issue. Please upgrade to 2.' We upgraded to 2 and, one week later they told us, 'Yeah, there are some issues in 2.0.0. You can lose data. Please upgrade to 2.0.1.' Overall, they need to make the system stable."
"It needs more mature code."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"It was very new when we first deployed it a year ago. Even the upgrade processes and knowing what to expect, as well as documentation, could be more robust."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"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."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"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."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 35 reviews while Dell XtremIO is ranked 22nd in All-Flash Storage with 7 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.4, while Dell XtremIO is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "Saves us power and floor space, and we can quickly assign new data stores for our developers' VMs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Useful data protection group, effective compression, and stable". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, INFINIDAT InfiniBox and VMware vSAN. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Dell XtremIO report.
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