We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and INFINIDAT InfiniBox 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."Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"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."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"Very efficient storage"
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"The reliability is very good."
"Its quick integration with VMware. The ability to stand up a data store in one place, where you don't have to go and rescan for the data store through the vCenter Client, as well as SMB shares. This ended up being a big selling point for us."
"We use replication for disaster recovery (DR), making our DR process much easier."
"It does great deduplication. From a storage perspective, we save money being able to dedupe right on the disk"
"Purchasing; We worked with a sales rep to purchase our Unity."
"We were able to integrate it very quickly with other solutions."
"The setup and installation procedures are easy."
"Quick Snapshots and cloning are key features."
"Storage Snapshots have been really nice. They allow us to do backups without impacting our production workload that much. The scalability, the ability to add disks dynamically and adjust our workload as needed, has also been really helpful. That definitely makes my job easier. And the interface for managing Unity is very easy. The integrations between VMware Hypervisor and Dell EMC are top-notch, so it's been really easy to use and manage."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"This product has good performance."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"A customer had to buy VMX because Unity didn't have WORM."
"This solution would be improved with the addition of flexible raid volumes."
"They can certainly improve in terms of monitoring."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately one hour. However, the full process was not as simple as IBM."
"I would like to have secure mobile connectivity going forward. This would help me be more proactive."
"The biggest one for us, and the reason we don't use it more, is that we can't throttle the replication speed. If it's on, it's on. So we have to be a little more WAN-sensitive, in some applications, which means we can't put it everywhere. That's the biggest issue for us, by far."
"We noticed in the last release of code that there were some inefficiencies around getting our data efficiency up in terms of dedupe and compression."
"Improve the interface and provide more management capability."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
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Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell XtremIO, VMware vSAN, HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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