Dell XtremIO Reviews

We are partners with this solution. In my company, we provide the cloud model. We offer service for public and private cloud and also on-premises.

The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable. 

The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier.

In the next release, they should improve the replication. There should be high availability. You can't do replication from one EMC to another, you would need to use another tool with the way it is now. 

Technical support depends on the contract and the partner that you are working with. There are some partners that don't have enough knowledge about support.

The initial setup is not hard, but it's not difficult for me because I am an engineer. It didn't take too long for me. If the customer did the implementation, it could take longer. It took around two to three hours. 

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

I would recommend this solution to someone considering it. 

We use the solution primarily in the banking system.

It's a great solution. We have 100% high availability and 100% business continuity. All our banking is All-Flash behind the VPLEX. 

We've seen great enhancements from the performance point of view. There's good availability, stability, and continuity, but the performance actually has increased by 60 or 70%.

The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, it could use a little bit of automation. 

The stability of the solution is very good. It may even be the best of the best if you compare it to the competition.

The scalability is very good. We can easily upgrade and move from one generation to another.

Technical support is very good. It's one of the best vendors for support.

The initial setup was straightforward. 

How long deployment takes depends on the platform. For example, on VMAX All-Flash, the initial configuration, and the provisioning took about three or four days. We were executing the hard work, including laying the cables, and all the break and fix stuff. 

We had a consultant assist with the deployment.

We've used multiple versions of the solution. We started with a legacy version from the VMAX 40K and then we went to the VMAX All-Flash 450FX. Currently, we are planning also to use PowerMax 8000. We use the on-premises deployment model. We don't deal with any cloud models.

I would rate the solution nine out of ten. I'm talking from the banking sector point of view. The banking sector is a more critical system. You have to keep your system up all day, all week, and you can not lose even a bit of transaction even for a millisecond or microsecond because you'll lose money. From my point of view, it's great, it's not like any other solution.

The primary use case of this solution is for virtualization.

The deployment model used was on-premises.

I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features.

The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team.

This solution is stable. I would give it five out of six, not 100% only 90%.

The scalability of this solution is good.

The technical support is good but they are not well organized.

The initial setup was straightforward.

There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

I am a partner for Dell EMC.

My complaints are not about the features of this solution, it's more about the pricing and the support.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for custom development and customer case studies.

The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance.

The deployment of the solution could be simplified.

The solution should be integrated into the system by default and not separately.

The solution is very stable.

The solution is scalable for SMBs.

Technical support is okay.

The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized.

The pricing is okay. It tends to offer some of the best pricing, but I still think it could be better.

We are using the on-premises deployment model.

My advice to those who plan on implementing the solution is to make sure you are doing accurate sizing. Don't just size for your current use only.

I would rate the solution nine out of ten.

I'm able to deploy a scalable amount of virtual machines from images of hundreds of gigabytes per second.

The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication.

It's not an improvement so much as a query. What I'm curious about is whether or not the feature has the ability to do inline data reduction between two physical storage solutions. If we have one storage solution in the UK and the other in Australia, will the system be able to tell us what we have already, so we aren't sending 95% of our data across the world unnecessarily? I know that the feature works locally on the source solution. What I'm curious about is, would that data reduction feature work between two instances of XtremIO in two different places.

It was the company's choice to switch to this solution. I don't remember what we had beforehand. I think that they made the switch because we knew we were going to have a large amount of data. The data reduction deduplication that this solution offered was very valuable. We knew that if we were going to be doing an extremely high amount of the right operation, the inline data reduction would be valuable as well. 

The performance of some of the features of the solution is very powerful. XtremIO was powerful enough to allow us to disable features of other items.

If I didn't have to think about the cost, I would rate the solution ten out of ten. This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive.

What I like about this solution, is that it is really fast and it's really good in compression. So you can put a lot of data in line on it. I've used it for cases like VDI in a healthcare environment because we use multiple copies of it. It is very good and has very good performance. It can handle big workloads. 

What needs to improve is that the end compression uses a lot of CPU, which makes it difficult or impossible to upgrade. I believe that it has improved in the upgraded versions, which we don't have yet. Also, the price and interface should be simplified too. 

The program is very stable.

We had some difficulty when we tried to expand our XtremIO because it had to be done in a certain way and only EMC personnel were allowed to do it. That wasn't very flexible. But it seems to be better in the new version. Scalability is always a problem. 

The technical team is good.

We previously used another EMC program, but it was not flash only, so that's why we switched to this solution. It possible to buy an all-flash system and, based on the compression features, we changed to this unit. 

We were not allowed to do the initial setup ourselves. So it was done by EMC personnel and maybe that could be improved so that our partner, our supplier, could do it themselves so that you don't need an EMC rep to perform the installation.

My advice to others would be to test it first to see the expected ratios. Do a check to see if they deliver what they promise. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. To make it a perfect ten, I would like to see better scalability. 

The performance very good, and the use case is actually we decided to have all flash a couple years ago and Xtreme IO was one of the vendors that your EMC partner reccomended so there was no discussion of what kind of storage we would buy.

The most valuable features are:

• Complete performance
• Ease of use

The stability of the product needs improvement.

I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure.

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.

The technical support was very good, but since the merger with Dell, it is very bad. It went from very good to very bad.

It was very easy and straightforward to setup. We plugged it in, connected, and then started. Simple. Our technical team had no problem with it.

When choosing a vendor, we we value known companies, as a solution. In addition, we value Blue technology.

It is expensive if you need to increase scalability.

We used the product for our internal customers (Banking). The performance really improved for the end users with reduced costs.

It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds. It's very easy to use in terms of administrative tasks on the GUI.

At times, it's difficult to track down allocated resources as compared to other solutions, like VMAX and VNX, because it's completely software-based.

The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other.

Yes, we had issues with data corruption on one of the X-Bricks. The issue propagated to other X-Bricks as well.

No, in terms of scalability, we didn't encounter issues. It was very easy to add X-Bricks to the system.

Technical support was great in terms of first response and further troubleshooting assistance.

Yes, we were using a VMAX solution before. This product was incorporated in order to get better performance at a reduced cost for our internal customers.

I was not involved with the initial setup phase. My role was more focused towards administrative and implementation tasks after the product was installed.

Again, both the pricing and licensing were handled by another group. So, I can't comment on it.

Yes, there were multiple options evaluated and also incorporated for some percentage of the workload, like NetApp C-mode array. Specifically, XtremIO was considered for Xtreme Performance as advertised by vendors at a lower cost as compared to existing storage arrays, like VMAX and VNX.

It's very good in terms of performance and the ease of use of its GUI. However, we had issues at the data corruption level, which resulted in multiple X-Brick failures. It's a big question for the stability and availability when we have enterprise level customers on such an Xtreme Performance array.