We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and IBM FlashSystem 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."Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"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."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"The most valuable feature of Dell EMC XtremIO is the data protection (DP) group, it is one of the most advanced features in these types of arrays. The dedupe and compression that this array provides both do a superb job."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"We've seen great enhancements from the performance point of view. There's good availability, stability, and continuity, but the performance actually has increased by 60 or 70%."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"It is great for applications like Microsoft Exchange, ERP, SQL and VDI; basically saved the VDI buy-in from users, as now performance was seamless in comparison to a physical PC."
"Virtualization of external storage, while adding cache and speed to the external storage."
"Ability to manage third-party arrays and virtualise them: One screen to control multiple arrays. Simplified administration."
"This solution is convenient, user-friendly, convenient and reliable."
"The performance is very good and we use this product to enhance our core system."
"The ability to create LUNs and modify them are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"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."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"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."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"It is very expensive to scale. You have to buy an additional system to extend from one disc, for instance. It is scalable, but extremely expensive to do so."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"Management: At the time, there was no snapshot scheduler, so I had to write XSnapCourier to address it. The sad thing is that even after the newest release, which includes a native scheduler, most customers using XSnapCourier chose to stick with it due to a more feature-rich experience."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"There could be some extra features added."
"The ease of installation should be improved. We had issues with the configuration model."
"They don't offer subscription-based payments."
"Customization features must be improved."
"The technical support in my region is satisfactory but it could improve. Support is very important for customers and downtime is very critical for us. We would like onsite or complete technical support which can help us to minimize our downtime or if problems occur."
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"The marketing could be improved."
"A big area for improvement is that the data reduction pool feature is not recommended for use in a production environment because it has stability and performance issues."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Dell XtremIO vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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