We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and Pure Storage FlashBlade 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."Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The performance is very good."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"Thin storage allocation"
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"We mostly use it for backup, because we cannot measure anything, and we are afraid to use it for surveillance systems. We were planning to use it for mostly for surveillance systems."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Linear performance – The XtremIO wasn’t the fastest in all tests against other all flash arrays, but even with a massive workload, the response time and user experience were absolutely predictable with no sharp drop-offs."
"It uses the same platform for connectivity so integration is seamless."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and simple."
"It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."
"It's very easy-to-use."
"We have seen a reduction in the total cost of ownership by around 20%."
"It performs well and it is also very fast."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"The solution is not cheap."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"In terms of scalability, it doesn't expand out quite as robustly as some of the others, but it covers 90% of the market in what it does."
"They need better integration with public clouds along with a better hybrid solution."
"I have not seen ROI."
"The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services."
"Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, requiring feature disabling to revert to traditional backups. The firmware upgrades sometimes affect Commvault backups."
"I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabytes."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. 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 Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS. See our Dell XtremIO vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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