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."They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"A particularly valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The deduplication functionality provided by the solution is fairly good. The speed offered by the product is enough for our organization."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"The simplicity and ease of use have been very valuable features. I have a very small team, and only half of the team is well versed in the HP product. Whereas if I bring PowerStore in, everyone can learn it because it will be new on the floor."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"It is very easy to use. Access is very friendly. It shows you a lot of important information at the first glance. It has been very easy to use."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"Thin storage allocation"
"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."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"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."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"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."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"It needs more mature code."
"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."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"Could use some additional automation."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"PowerStore's management console could be improved."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"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."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Huawei OceanStor, 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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