We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and SolidFire 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."The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"Very efficient storage"
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"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."
"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 Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"If we get complaints about any kind of performance metric issues, whether it's storage related or something on the virtual side, we use it to pinpoint what the actual issue is."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"It's got full API functionality and the performance is pretty steady."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"They could improve the price."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"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."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"They could do a file-based NAS: SolidFire NAS-based. It's probably not its niche, but that is our direction, not to use block, and it's block. Solid state block is what it is."
"The upgrade process could be better."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while SolidFire 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our Dell XtremIO vs. SolidFire report.
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