Dell XtremIO Reviews

I use XtremIO for backup and recovery, to allow connected applications to access storage, and to locate storage resources for specific users.

I've been using XtremIO for four years.

XtremIO is very stable.

XtremIO is scalable - it has expansion charges so that you can extend your storage size.

Dell's technical support could be better.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We used a vendor team.

I would recommend XtremIO to others and give it a rating of seven out of ten.

The fact that we can put up to five times more data on the XtremIO X-Brick prevents us from having to buy large amounts of disks.

This enclosure occupies six rack units of space, which means we aren’t paying a lot of money for rack space in our co-location facility.

XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size. The configuration of the product is simple, as is creating and presenting volumes.

The snapshot capabilities, that hardly consume any disk space, are also impressive.

If Dell/EMC were to add native replication to the XtremIO, that would be a great improvement.

Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system.

Having built-in replication will cut the cost of data recovery solutions by removing the expensive appliances and the software required to make the data flow between the two sites.

Until the release of XtremIO X2 this summer, there is currently no “built-in” replication capabilities between XtremIO appliances. This is a feature that some competitors have that XtremIO Gen 1 does not.

In order to replicate block data from XtremIO to XtremIO, or XtremIO to another EMC product, a customer must purchase RecoverPoint appliances and licenses.

To replicate virtual machines, you can either buy RecoverPoint appliances and licenses, vSphere replication and licenses, Zerto, Veeam, or another product.

Buying these add-ons increases the cost of maintaining redundant copies of XtremIO data.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We have consumed ~756GB of disk on a 2-brick cluster and have much more than the physical capacity of the system provisioned. There have been no problems with scalability at all.

I would give technical support the highest rating. Dell/EMC appears to have employed the team that developed XtremIO. Deep product questions or operational questions make it to them.

We were using VNX. The compression and deduplication numbers, as well as the level of effort needed to build RAID groups on this storage processor array to support workloads, caused us to consider XtremIO.

The initial setup was totally as expected.

This is the best flash array on the market for high-end workloads, so expect to pay for that. But the support subscription cost is fixed for seven years, which made it easier for us to plan on the maintenance costs.

We did not evaluate other options.

If you have the workloads that require the performance that XtremIO provides, without having to consider what workloads you are throwing at this array, then this solution is for you.

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.

Newer version V6 (XtremIO Data Protection XDP) increases performance with built-in data protection.

Improved density with ability to scale out to eight X-Bricks if necessary / more density on capacity.

In memory Space / Efficient Copies.

Moved and zoned our Prod Client facing Applications. Quicker response to the business and more efficiency.

Also assisted with large datasets, thus dramatically reducing our batch runs.

Newer HTML 5, no more JAVA required.

Three years.

In the very beginning, with the old version 4, we had issues around Snap and clones.

Yes , I do recall we had an issue with a version of code on XtremeIO before we could Scale.

Seven out of 10.

We are using HDS and EMC.

I was not involved with setup.

I was not involved.

HDS, IBM and Pure storage.

A proof of concept will provide the best results for determining what solution you should go for.

We gain, on the average, 6:1 deduplication with compression. This ratio represents a substantial amount of space savings. Our SLA has improved to 99.9%.

• Very good IOPS performance
• Thin-provisioning and deduplication savings
• Natively thin-provisioned

They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application.

We use the dashboard of the Java based Windows application to monitor the storage array’s current IOPS and latency metrics.

However, we also require direct firewall access open to the XMS server as we monitor from a different location. I don’t believe the Java based GUI application is proxy aware.

So, if the XMS application server could be monitored through an HTML browser interface, it should then be proxy aware, making life a little simpler.

We have not had stability issues.

We have not had scalability issues.

Technical support is very good and always available.

We used DAS Solutions. We were not getting the required IOPS and SAN stability, and that was a concern.

The installation was done by a third-party.

We evaluated NetApp.

Make sure you understand the basic fundamentals of SAN, IOPS, and data deduplication.

Dell XtremIO provides great performance. The IOPS is less than one millisecond. Because of this, many telecom companies are working with this solution. They are dependent on XtremIO as their main storage source on their side.

Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads.

Dell XtremIO needs to provide better performance to keep up with new products.

I have been using Dell XtremIO for six years.

This solution is stable.

XtremIO is scalable from one engine to maybe eight engines.

Dell's technical support provides a good response time.

Neutral

The initial setup of Dell XtremIO was good and took less than an hour to complete. 

There are many new products with more features coming, such as Pure Storage. XtremIO is coming to its end of life. We will not be implementing this solution in the future.

The license for XtremIO is in the box, so you don't have to buy anything.

Dell XtremIO is an old product according to the current surge rate available in the market.

I would rate the solution a seven out of 10.

We are a partner with Dell and our specialization is storage.

Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good.

XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability.

Scability of Dell EMC XtremIO could be better.

We also use PowerStore which we find easier to implement.

XtremIO is too high priced, especially in Brazil.

XtremIO is a good solution. I would rate it an 8 out of 10.

None of the features are valuable for us. The product is poorly designed and not reliable. It performed well when it did work.

We have had no benefits from this product. It produced an outage and didn't deliver on promises made by the sales and engineering teams.

It needs a lot of improvement to be more like Pure Storage or Nimble AFAs.

We have been using this product for a year.

We had stability issues. We ran out of space pretty quickly and the cost to scale did not match our needs.

We had scalability issues. It does not scale in a granular manner.

The technical support is horrible. It took a week for them to get back to us on what caused the outage. Also, there are too many different teams that support the product internally.

We used EMC VMAX. We switched because EMC made it too costly to stay on VMAX and gave us discounts on XtremIO.

The initial setup was complex. We hired someone to do it. It took them two days. Our new array was done by my team in less than two hours.

EMC has not delivered on promises with their array. We have been with them for seven years and had five different arrays. Same story every time. Worst support in the industry.

We evaluated Pure Storage, Nimble, and SolidFire.

Don't do it.