We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array 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."The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"The scalability is good."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"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."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"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."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"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 management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
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Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is rated 9.4. 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 Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array writes "Good support, improves performance, scales well, and boosts team efficiency". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas Pavilion HyperParallel Flash Array is most compared with Pure FlashArray X NVMe.
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