We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and VMware vSAN 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 stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"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."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"It has good stability for our company."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"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."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"Overall the solution is very good."
"Adding new nodes and expanding vSAN forward is simple and non-disruptive for a lot of our customers."
"When we do to do more scaled load testing, we can run more dense workloads and still have the same results across all specific nodes"
"Its ease of use is most valuable. It is easy to configure, and there is a unified interface, which makes things slightly easier."
"We find it easy to deliver this solution."
"Technical support is very helpful and very good at resolving issues."
"vSAN can help customers save on storage system costs, and also save on the human cost."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"We've encountered challenges in integrating other products with Dell Xtremio, as it tends to be more vendor-locked. This means we can't easily explore other solutions that might work alongside Dell."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"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."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
"I think it needs to be more cost-effective. I would also say that even though the capacity is good, there is also room for improvement there. Also, they could improve the security of the system."
"It would be much improved if we could somehow integrate a better backup with it. Right now, we're using Veeam and it's okay, but I would like more of a VDP vSAN solution. That would be excellent. The VDP, at least the last time we looked at, it was just not quite there."
"It is an expensive solution."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
"The upgrading process could be simplified."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
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