Dell XtremIO Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

it_user351513

Manager, EMEA Datacenter and Database Operations at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 1, 2018

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The stability needs improvement. And, it is expensive as you scale.

Pros and Cons

"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."

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

What is our primary use case?

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.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features are:

Complete performance
Ease of use

What needs improvement?

The stability of the product needs improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

Three to five years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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.

How are customer service and support?

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

How was the initial setup?

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.

What about the implementation team?

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

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It is expensive if you need to increase scalability.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user234747

Practice Manager - Cloud, Automation & DevOps at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 17, 2015

The XtremIO cost would be slightly cheaper than the VMAX, and 1/3rd the size.

Originally posted at vcdx133.com.

I am currently testing my EMC XtremIO PoC system with EMC. One of the great benefits of XtremIO is the Deduplication feature, which at a minimum will be 10:1, so the experts tell me and will be even better in version 3.0. My current Symmetrix VMAX configurations are 250TB and 350TB of tiered SSD, 15KFC and SATA storage for 2 sites. So assuming a 10:1 dedupe ratio, could I replace my two Symmetrix VMAX solutions with two XtremIO systems of 2 X-bricks (with 20TB model)? It almost seems too good to be true! From a price perspective, the XtremIO cost would be slightly cheaper than the VMAX (after the highly combative process of vendor bashing, sorry – negotiation, in my region) and from a space perspective 1/3rd the size (with SAN Fabric). No need to state the obvious about performance.

UPDATE: 10:1 is too good to be true, EMC experts tell me 1.x-2:1 is more realistic for business critical databases. V3.0 will add compression, which will increase space efficiency by a small percentage also. So hold your plans to drop spinning disks from your data center.

The picture below shows my VNX VG8 NAS Gateway with a 3 bay, 2 Engine Symmetrix VMAX 20K on the left (yes, I run entirely with NFSv3 and am 99% virtualised with vSphere 5.5 on Cisco UCS – I built my own vBlock!) and my XtremIO PoC system on the right (with two X-bricks, but can handle four 20TB X-bricks in the same rack). Could this be my new motto? “Spinning disks are a waste of space, flash is packed!”