We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and VMware vSAN 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."Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"Support has been helpful."
"It worked flawlessly."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"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 most valuable feature is the fast cache with functionality rewrite."
"Stable flash storage platform with good scalability, efficiency, and speed."
"We're able to access it from just about anywhere, as long as we have access to a browser. That feature is really neat because sometimes we will go to a different data center or a different site, and if we need to access it to see a LUN or to see any type of storage, we can do that. That's one of the big takeaways with Unity."
"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."
"It is definitely one of the most robust, solid, well-performing products that I have dealt with. It is set it and forget it, which is pretty amazing."
"It is a stable solution that sells a lot...The deployment phase of the product was very easy."
"Its most valuable feature is the storage alarm."
"This solution is easy to work with and easy to maintain."
"The most valuable feature is the fast performance."
"vSAN is integrated into VMware."
"Its ease of use is most valuable. It is easy to configure, and there is a unified interface, which makes things slightly easier."
"The technical support is good."
"It is user-friendly, and its performance is good."
"The scalability is very good and the solution is stable and reliable."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"The product’s most valuable features are performance and expandability."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"It was not proactive communication."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"The price could be better."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"Licensing costs could be reduced."
"This product has some scalability issues. Before you can get support, you have to look for the service tag number on your product which could make it difficult to access support."
"It is expensive, and the pricing could be better."
"I have a problem because between the Unity XT and the PowerMax, sometimes we need another product between these two products. There could be better integrated and the capacity of the size could be larger."
"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."
"This is a tier-three solution and it gives us what we need for archiving and backups."
"Our customers are mostly happy with Unity except for the price. We primarily sell to enterprise companies because small companies cannot afford it."
"Having more artificial intelligence tools built into the solution would be a great benefit. This would allow us to see more about the workloads and higher visibility, such as performance degradation."
"If we have some complicated issues, you have to use the command lines interface. Not everything is possible to be fixed in the GUI. This is a drawback, that some things have to be fixed via command-line interface and should be able to be done in the GUI."
"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
"The updating process could be easier."
"The upgrading process could be simplified."
"This product is very expensive."
"Based on my testing, I would like to expand deduplication to include hybrid deployments and not just for all-flash deployments."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 45 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 42 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. 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 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, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind Virtual SAN.
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