We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and Dell Unity XT 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 all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"The solution has a wide variety of valuable features. The data progression works well. We use the snapshot functionality quite a bit and really like it."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"Easy management of volumes: You can create volumes and easily assign them to VMware clusters, increasing their size."
"Customers are most impressed with SC's provisioning because you don't need to buy a large amount of storage upfront. It's pay-as-you-grow. It also has solid compression and duplication features."
"It is fast and performs well."
"With auto-tiering, it's easier to understand than most arrays, knowing that all of your writes go to the tier that you specify, with easy-to-create storage profiles."
"We can get almost real-time response times."
"Via a click, we can deploy a data store or LUN to the ESX host. We can also deploy VVOLs to the ESX server."
"I like the easy management with the new Unisphere management and the HTML5 interface."
"The performance combined with the gig-per-dollar value is a combination that is superior to other storage options."
"It has helped us be able to use less administrators per device or system. Therefore,we are more streamlined."
"Replication of the communication object (COB) scenarios"
"We are happy with the way we have Dell EMC Unity XT configured."
"This solution makes it easy to manage storage, provision new workloads, and scale-up."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"The connection should be better integrated with the network to offer a better view of the system."
"Technical support should respond more quickly because the turnaround time is very high."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"There's always room for improvement in the operating code."
"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."
"Overall, I'd like to see more synergy between Dell EMC's higher-tier platforms and their mid-tier platforms. What I have said, constantly, to my partners at Dell EMC is that the clear articulation of the path is really important to us. In that vein, what I'd also like to see is, with the migration strategy that's built into this product, a lot more attention paid to Dell's - in particular - legacy platforms and how we get from some of our legacy EMC platforms onto this platform with a straight-through migration and scaling strategy, not host-based migrations and not piecemeal... Dell EMC would do well to focus more on my ability to skip a generation, rather than having me take individual hops because I can't greenfield my way into a software-defined data center fast enough. This journey of multiple hops is not helpful."
"I would like to see higher compression, dedupe, faster I/O, and bigger drives."
"While the price is competitive, in the next release it would be better if they could reduce the fees."
"The pre-sales technical support and technical engagement could be made better for this product."
"Support Responsiveness & time to fix bugs should be improved."
"The iSCSI and the VMware integation using vSphere could be less confusing."
"My only complaint would be some of the CLI Help files could be a little more detailed, but that's very minor complaint. We were trying to run some commands just to see how the storage snaps were interacting with the storage array, and it was a little difficult to look up exactly what commands should be run. The Help files detailing what exactly the commands did wasn't as detailed as we would have wanted them to be."
"The price of Dell Unity XT could improve."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately one hour. However, the full process was not as simple as IBM."
"It isn't easy to find trusted partners for the product. The solution has issues with mid-level storage and does not come with enterprise storage."
"Its replication technology could be better."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor, HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp AFF, whereas Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell SC Series vs. Dell Unity XT report.
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