Dell XtremIO vs Tintri VMstore T7000 comparison

Dell Technologies and Tintri are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Dell Technologies is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.0, while Tintri is ranked #23 with an average rating of 9.3. Dell Technologies holds a 0.9% mindshare in AFS, compared to Tintri’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Tintri users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Dell XtremIO and Tintri VMstore T7000 are two influential storage solutions renowned for their performance and capabilities. Tintri VMstore T7000 appears superior in terms of features and cost-effectiveness, while Dell XtremIO garners appreciation for its reliable customer support and deployment simplicity.

Features: Tintri VMstore T7000 outshines with superior VM-level analytics, automation, and cost-effectiveness. Dell XtremIO offers high-performance storage, data deduplication, and scalability, which users find particularly valuable.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest that Dell XtremIO could benefit from enhanced integration options, more streamlined management tools, and frequent updates. Tintri VMstore T7000 could improve documentation, issue more frequent software updates, and simplify advanced configuration setup.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell XtremIO is praised for its straightforward deployment process and dependable customer support. Tintri VMstore T7000 offers easy deployment but occasionally faces criticism over complexity in advanced configurations. Both products maintain robust customer service, though Dell XtremIO's is slightly more favored by users.

Pricing and ROI: Dell XtremIO is perceived to have higher initial setup costs but delivers satisfactory ROI through consistent performance. Tintri VMstore T7000 is considered more cost-effective with a quicker ROI, attributed to its efficient automation features and lower overall cost of ownership. Despite higher initial costs, users find the investment in Tintri VMstore T7000 justified by its comprehensive feature set and operational efficiencies.

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Dell XtremIO vs. Tintri VMstore T7000

December 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

1.0

Organizations reduced costs and improved performance with Pure FlashArray X NVMe, achieving quick ROI and efficient resource management.

Sentiment score

1.0

Dell XtremIO enhances performance, reduces latency, increases efficiency, and improves reliability, leading to faster response times and cost savings.

Sentiment score

6.3

Tintri VMstore T7000 enhances efficiency, reduces costs and TCO, improves scalability, and boosts performance, benefiting organizational operations significantly.

If you wait more than seven years to buy another one, you get a return on your investment.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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I accidentally had a volume or VMstore running up to 95%, but it was no issue. The performance was still top-notch despite being used over 90%.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.1

Pure FlashArray X NVMe's technical support is praised for responsiveness, despite occasional follow-up issues, earning high customer satisfaction.

Sentiment score

7.2

Dell XtremIO support receives mixed reviews, from exemplary technical assistance to variable performance post-Dell merger.

Sentiment score

8.1

Tintri VMstore T7000's customer service is highly regarded for prompt, proactive support with knowledgeable, responsive technical staff.

Customers always have their issues resolved promptly.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

Technical support is good at least through vendors, not directly with the principal.

Shakeel Qureshi

Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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Their support team provides excellent assistance and effectively addresses issues.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

The response time is very prompt.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers scalable storage with low latency, easy upgrades, though capacity customization and high costs are noted.

Sentiment score

6.9

Dell XtremIO is scalable and integrates well with virtualization but may have initial cost and enterprise-level scalability challenges.

Sentiment score

7.5

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers scalable, efficient node-based architecture, allowing easy expansion, despite potential costs, with seamless management.

It hasn't broken down anytime in the last six to seven years, despite hurricanes, earthquakes, and power outages.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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Dell XtremIO provides very good scalability, allowing for cluster configurations that are easy to scale.

Stanislaw Jagielski

Trainer, Storage Consultant at Oxon

Dell XtremIO's scalability is quite easy;

Avi Shpaner

System Engineer at Exaware

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You do not need to purchase fully populated or maxed-out boxes on day one; instead, you can start with half-populated boxes and expand as your needs grow, adding disks as necessary.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

Five are running in production, three are in the DR site, and one is in the bunker site.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Pure Storage offers exceptional stability and reliability with outstanding support, consistently achieving high user ratings for performance and service.

Sentiment score

8.3

Dell XtremIO is generally stable and reliable, despite earlier issues, with well-regarded performance and effective support for problems.

Sentiment score

7.4

The Tintri VMstore T7000 is praised for stability, robust architecture, reliable support, and exceptional failover features, despite minor issues.

I would rate the stability of the product at seven out of ten.

Gary Cheung

Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees

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My customer has been using Dell XtremIO since 2017 and has not experienced any failures.

Kirihettige Anton Asiri Prasad

Systems Engineer at Thakral One (Pvt) Ltd

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A new controller was shipped and arrived the next day.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

In the last year, we have not experienced any downtime in Tintri VMstore T7000.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

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Room For Improvement

Pure FlashArray X requires cost-effective improvements in UI, integration, cloud features, multitenancy, analytics, backup, AI, and scalability.

Dell XtremIO faces challenges with volume limits, user interface, replication, upgrades, support response times, and scalability.

Tintri VMstore T7000 needs licensing improvements, better vSphere integration, and enhanced features for cloud, telemetry, and language support.

One way to improve the product is to add an operational assistant that doesn't depend on VMware.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

I would like to see some AI features that would allow arrays to intelligently identify threats or unusual behavior in the data pattern and give an alert.

Santhosh Sridhara

Cloud Architect at DXC Technology

Storage replication should be essential.

Shakeel Qureshi

Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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The interface could be simplified for beginners to ease the configuration of special objects in the system.

Stanislaw Jagielski

Trainer, Storage Consultant at Oxon

There is a significant lack of training, support documents, and forums available for Dell XtremIO, making troubleshooting difficult for third-party individuals.

Kirihettige Anton Asiri Prasad

Systems Engineer at Thakral One (Pvt) Ltd

The API to connect with command line or to see performance very clearly could be enhanced, similar to how NetApp works with Grafana and NetApp monitor, which shows you a comprehensive view of the whole picture.

Avi Shpaner

System Engineer at Exaware

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Tintri could improve by ensuring shorter times for support and compatibility when there are new releases from partners like VMware or Microsoft.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

Maybe some sort of spreadsheet or visual tool would help. It could show the amount of data and servers we have, guide us on which particular build to choose, and estimate costs.

reviewer936846

IT Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

It is very expensive as an appliance compared to other storages such as Huawei or Dell storage.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

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Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers see Pure FlashArray X NVMe as a justified premium investment due to performance and comprehensive licensing.

Dell XtremIO's high pricing is justified by performance and features, offering comprehensive licensing but additional products are needed.

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers competitive pricing with good value, appealing to smaller companies despite some additional feature costs.

While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits.

Enes SUZER

Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.

The support can be a bit pricey, but the solution is more cost-effective than anything else out there.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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XtremIO offers features that justify a potentially higher price, however, this varies with configuration.

Stanislaw Jagielski

Trainer, Storage Consultant at Oxon

Dell XtremIO is quite expensive compared to other solutions on the market.

Kirihettige Anton Asiri Prasad

Systems Engineer at Thakral One (Pvt) Ltd

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While it might seem expensive per gigabyte initially, the practical capacity and the reduced need for additional backup and storage personnel make it fairly priced.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

Tintri VMstore T7000 appliance itself is very expensive.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

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Valuable Features

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers exceptional performance, reliability, scalability, and seamless VMware integration, enhancing workload efficiency and user experience.

Dell XtremIO offers high performance, scalability, and efficient management with deduplication and compression, ideal for complex workloads.

Tintri VMstore T7000 is praised for VM awareness, performance, cost efficiency, intuitive management, and seamless VMware integration.

Its data compression feature is the best that we have ever seen.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed.

Enes SUZER

Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.

We are satisfied with the performance as it is significantly faster compared to traditional storage options.

Gary Cheung

Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees

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The inline data deduplication feature and compression were useful for me because the performance was very good when I needed to read or write from storage, latency was reduced, storage was extended, and volume replication was supported.

Avi Shpaner

System Engineer at Exaware

Scalability is a significant feature of Dell XtremIO, as it is easy to expand and manage.

Stanislaw Jagielski

Trainer, Storage Consultant at Oxon

The speed and scalability of Dell XtremIO are significant features that improve data storage management.

Kirihettige Anton Asiri Prasad

Systems Engineer at Thakral One (Pvt) Ltd

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It is hands-off and runs seamlessly without needing daily management.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

I have eliminated bottlenecks with storage and have a more secure storage platform using unwritable snapshots.

reviewer936846

IT Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

The major benefit of using Tintri VMstore T7000 is its deduplication and compression ratio, which is around 4x to 5x. No other storage is giving that much ratio.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

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Categories and Ranking

Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the All-Flash Storage category, the mindshare of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is 1.4%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell XtremIO is 0.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tintri VMstore T7000 is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

All-Flash Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Pure FlashArray X NVMe	1.4%
Dell XtremIO	0.9%
Tintri VMstore T7000	0.8%
Other	96.9%

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Jaehoon Oh

Chief Technology Officer at Lambda256

Supports efficient storage management through volume snapshots and offers reliable non-disruptive upgrades

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could be enhanced. I can see the performance statistics in the Pure Storage console, but it does not show the performance by 4K byte unit. It displays IOPS and bandwidth, but IOPS is about real use, and I want to know how many IOPS are currently running in 4K byte units. I cannot see that IOPS because most storage systems report their performance by 4K byte unit. I want to see Pure Storage performance by 4K byte unit to compare with other storage or other internal NVMe SSD.

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Avi Shpaner

System Engineer at Exaware

Has improved data reduction and snapshot efficiency while supporting critical workloads

There are some areas that could be improved with Dell XtremIO. The API to connect with command line or to see performance very clearly could be enhanced, similar to how NetApp works with Grafana and NetApp monitor, which shows you a comprehensive view of the whole picture. The snapshot functionality could work more similarly to Snap Center. If I want to see all the VCenter with the VM, I think it needs the API for this. I do see big differences between Dell and other products. NetApp works very closely with VCenter, and Hitachi also integrates well, but Dell is not very clear and does not proceed well with VCenter integration with Dell. It needs the API, and I need to see all the snapshots. If I want to restore a VM from only a few directories or a few files that I need to restore, it is very difficult. I do see some differences in licensing. For the last few years, the Dell EMC price is acceptable. A few years ago, Dell EMC was expensive, approximately 20 percent more than NetApp. Right now the budget between EMC and NetApp is very closely aligned. Regarding the installation process and deployment of Dell XtremIO, I notice that in Israel, a lot of professional services and engineers who work with Dell EMC have moved to another storage company. I do not know why. Dell EMC does not have enough engineers, system engineers, or professional services engineers to provide service to the old clients, similar to how NetApp or Hitachi do. I think Dell XtremIO is between easy and complicated to deploy; it gives you the whole picture, but I need to go closely to VCenter to connect to VCenter to see the snapshot and to see performance with more dashboards of performance. I also need to connect the switch fiber channel to see all zoning to give me more flexibility to install or configure fiber channel or to see the performance of the fiber channels. I think there should be some fiber channel disconnect adapter or better troubleshooting from hardware for errors.

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Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

Vm-aware storage has simplified vmware management and delivers strong deduplication and savings

There are many good features for Tintri VMstore T7000, especially its nature of understanding VMware. It is VM-aware storage, which is a very good characteristic. When any VM is moved from one host to another host, there is no way to see where it is running. It is very smooth in action. Trintri VMstore T7000 is totally autonomous. We have integrated it with our virtualization environment, so all the VMs and machines running in our environment move between one Tintri VMstore T7000 and another without requiring any manual intervention. The system can schedule resources from its own capabilities. If one Tintri VMstore T7000 becomes full, the machine will be moved to another automatically. This autonomous system is very beneficial. Nowadays, all storage comes with NVMe flash and all storage is coming with flash storages as well. Tintri VMstore T7000 is much easier to handle. We just need to integrate the whole Tintri VMstore T7000 with vCenter and all the work will be done by vCenter. If we want to check what the deduplication will be, there is a really good feature of Tintri VMstore T7000 called TGC. We can integrate all Tintri VMstore T7000 systems from one end and manage all of them from a single endpoint. The major benefit of using Tintri VMstore T7000 is its deduplication and compression ratio, which is around 4x to 5x. No other storage is giving that much ratio. This is really good and much cost-saving for the company. Administrative cost is reduced because Tintri VMstore T7000 gives us a single point where we can manage it. This is both time-saving and cost-saving.

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Computer Software Company

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Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

12%

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Performing Arts

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	12

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Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	29

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Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	27
Large Enterprise	19

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

The price of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is very expensive, though I do not know the actual price because I am using the E...

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What needs improvement with Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could ...

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What do you like most about Dell EMC XtremIO?

The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're cont...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell XtremIO?

Pricing is hard to determine as it depends on the given configuration. XtremIO offers features that justify a potenti...

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What needs improvement with Dell XtremIO?

There are some areas that could be improved with Dell XtremIO. The API to connect with command line or to see perform...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tintri VMstore?

It is cost-effective in certain aspects. However, Tintri VMstore T7000 appliance itself is very expensive. As far as ...

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What needs improvement with Tintri VMstore?

For improvement, the first thing that needs to be addressed is cost. It is very expensive as an appliance compared to...

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Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X

Dell EMC XtremIO Flash, Dell EMC XtremIO X2, XtremIO, XtremIO X2

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Overview

Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.

Pure Storage

Bring all-flash, scale-out storage to your enterprise applications with EMC XtremIO. Purpose-built for flash, XtremIO storage arrays are amazingly fast. Delivering high IOPS at less than 1 millisecond latency is just the start. EMC XtremIO helps you harness the power of flash storage by building in innovations like content-based data placement and dual-stage metadata.

Dell Technologies

For over 10 years, Tintri has been unburdening IT teams of tedious, manual data management with the most advanced, AI-enabled solution on the market. With a commitment to ongoing R&D, Tintri delivers an infrastructure solution built for today’s future-ready, integrated operations from the ground up. We are redefining what data management and analytics look like for today’s dynamic workloads.

Tintri VMstore Adds Feature That No Other Platform Offers

Workload Intelligence Drives Tintri’s Most Powerful and Flexible Auto Adaptive Platform

The Tintri VMstore T7000 Series is the latest addition to the storage industry’s only true Intelligent Infrastructure portfolio. The T7000 delivers NVMe driven performance and efficiencies, supporting up to 7,500 virtualized applications in just two rack units. It offers the kind of scalability, availability and security that you’d expect from an enterprise-grade system that powers numerous Fortune 100 firms. Our customers love the outstanding AI-driven efficiency and optimizations that set VMstore apart from traditional approaches. VMstore systems deploy in minutes, self-optimize and dynamically adapt to accommodate the most demanding workloads in the data center maintaining quality of service (Auto-QoS) for each Virtual Machine (VM). Autonomous operations and advanced real-time and predictive analytics consistently drive down storage management activities and costs – by as much as 95%.

Tintri VMstore T7000 – NVMe Platform Datasheet

Tintri “Geek Out” Demo Series

Tintri VMstore simplifies and automates storage management, delivering real-time analytics, and maximizing performance so you can refocus your efforts on high-impact projects and business innovation.

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