"My storage team likes Unity's replication features. Three-site replication is a unique feature that EMC offers us."
"The inline deduplication and data reduction capabilities have been the most valuable."
"Using this solution has meant that I do not need to look for different partners to provide me with solutions like a backup service. Dell provides end to end solutions."
"The most valuable features are its performance and simplicity."
"We are happy with the way we have Dell EMC Unity XT configured."
"I have had no problem at all. I think this is one of the most important things. It is very good. Maintaining it and deploying updates require very low maintenance. We haven't had problems. We had to replace a couple of disks in all these years, but it was pretty straightforward."
"When I have an issue and need technical support, I reach out to them either through chat or by submitting a service request, and the response is good."
"On the Data Domain side, the most attractive feature is the compression ratio, which none of the other products in the market are currently able to provide. On the Unity side, what customers mostly like is the availability guarantee."
"The most valuable feature for our customers is vMotion. It allows them to shut down virtual machines and migrate them to others servers."
"It has a single pane of glass for management and operational control, which is the most valuable feature. The integrated storage is also valuable."
"The scalability has been quite good."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is stable."
"This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"Technical support is very helpful and very good at resolving issues."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSAN are that it receives updates frequently, has good compression, optimized storage, and they provide webinars on what is new. Additionally, the integration with third-party products is good and it is easy to manage."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say its capacity and its connection."
"Dell EMC Unity XT should present a path or a roadmap on how they could put their products on the cloud. This would have some value for their current customers."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately one hour. However, the full process was not as simple as IBM."
"Support Responsiveness & time to fix bugs should be improved."
"Dell could improve Unity XT by adding support for NVMe."
"This is a tier-three solution and it gives us what we need for archiving and backups."
"The interface and configuration could improve."
"Scalability of this solution could be improved."
"More focus has to be put on deduplication and compression with a hybrid architecture."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"The ability to access SAN environments with fiber channels (or even NVMe) would be a good addition."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"The solution functions as the marketing says, as long as you follow certain rules."
"Based on my testing, I would like to expand deduplication to include hybrid deployments and not just for all-flash deployments."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 29 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 87 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "We can do both block and file storage on one unit without purchasing a separate device". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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