We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and Pure FlashArray X NVMe 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."Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The solution allows for easy, useful replication with good features for VPLEX and VIVO."
"The complete block and file sharing are the most usable features."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the unified storage. Also, its capabilities for block-access, file access, and the center box."
"I have found Dell EMC Unity XT to be stable."
"The most valuable feature is that the solution is a hybrid system, so you can do both block and file storage."
"I like how it separates the iSCSI drives from the standard shares. It has two different routes to it. I know most of the other solutions do this, but I just like the way that Dell EMC does it."
"The Unity XT box is very strong. It doesn't break. The MTBF time is very large so you don't have to worry about faults or outages in your operations."
"Its most valuable feature is the storage alarm."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"The solution is scalable."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The pre-sales technical support and technical engagement could be made better for this product."
"I would like it to be a little bit easier to contact support. We can contact support, but we have to go through a phone tree. We get routed to different places. I might call support to say that I need a drive replaced and get transferred to three different groups before I get to the group I actually need."
"We would like to see more advanced integration capability added to this solution."
"Dell Unity XT could improve the compatibility of some of the features. Some of my customers had some problems. Additionally, it would be beneficial for the solution to have advanced AI and ML features."
"The solution can use improvement with the patch cluster like the Synchron and Active replication."
"One area of improvement is replication. We are also using Oracle virtual machines, and when you are using systems from other vendors, the process of replicating from Unity through OLVM is more laborious than when we were using VPLEX."
"It could go faster. Make it bigger, better, and faster at a lower price, and I am there."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the deduplication part, because for large deduplications, you need an extra appliance to do it in order to avoid having problems in performance. I think that could be improved, because everything should be included in the product, not with an appliance from the outside."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 8 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Price / Quality ratio is good and since OE 5.03 code the array family reached a rather good maturity level". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure FlashArray X NVMe writes "We can monitor our storage from anywhere, and it is light in maintenance and very stable". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas Pure FlashArray X NVMe is most compared with HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Pure FlashArray X NVMe report.
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