Dell XtremIO vs Reduxio [EOL] comparison

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Everpure FlashArray

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Sowjanya MV

Technical Lead at Wipro Limited

Has improved performance for mission-critical workloads and enabled seamless non-disruptive upgrades

The availability is 99.99%, which is the main factor any customer would need because their data should be available whenever they want to access it. This is one main critical thing. It is very easy to upgrade since Pure Storage FlashArray handles it well. Everything is non-disruptive now; previously, there were forklift shifts, but now that is not the case. Pure Storage FlashArray says no to forklift upgrades. Usually hardware requires downtime, but Pure Storage FlashArray has improved their footprint so that they are not asking for downtime; everything is just a non-disruptive activity, which is why customers are more inclined towards Pure Storage FlashArray. Customers want more of the models in their environment due to the performance they are giving, and everything is in one Pure1 Array console where we can view all the models on one page or just an orchestration tool. You don't miss anything; you have replication, notifications about replication, and details about which host groups replication is happening in and if that replication is successful or failed. On a daily basis, our purpose is to create volumes for infrastructure; our daily activities include creating volumes and mapping them to the host, doing any migrations from a VM, clearing the data stores, and carving the volumes to those VMs. One key factor is the data compression with a ratio of 5:1, focusing on space efficiency, inline deduplication, and the compression Pure Storage FlashArray works on; that is a major factor we can suggest to any customer. Analytical capabilities are crucial. Daily, we check the throughput and consumption, and Pure Storage FlashArray provides predictions for one year regarding usage. This prediction helps plan updates well ahead. For support, we just raise a case, and they follow up and get it done. There is also AI readiness, but with the model R2, we don't have much of that AI readiness. For others, we do have AI readiness that predicts capacity based on daily or monthly trends, enabling us to analyze how much space we need or if we need to expand the disk shelf. From an operational point of view, a good feature is that if you accidentally delete a volume, it will be retained in the destroyed state for the next twenty-four hours, which is not the same with any other vendor. I have worked in this storage domain for the past fifteen years, and this option is remarkable, benefiting any L1 or L2 engineer. Additionally, from a compliance perspective, Pure Storage FlashArray has REST APIs enabled. I have not explored automation much, but from a security standpoint, it is strong with encryption data. If you want to automate, you can easily integrate with all clouds and explore Pure Cloud for scheduling workloads, including volume creation. Customers find benefit in Pure Storage FlashArray's single management pane of glass due to the dual controller and active-active setup. If one of the controllers goes down, all workloads automatically shift to the other controller, ensuring their data is safe and accessible at all times. This is a highlighted feature that any customer desires because their data should always be accessible. For SAN workloads, we use Pure Storage FlashArray because for SAN FC fiber channel, we don't use it; we use NetApp for NAS activities. We have clearly split this, so SAN is for mission-critical applications, while network-attached storage handles file systems. This architecture helps us maximize the benefit from Pure Storage FlashArray due to the significant workloads from this giant retail client. From a footprint and energy consumption perspective, you can see energy consumption from the Pure1 storage portal on a daily basis, and it is very compact. The three models we use consume only three units, which is quite low. From a footprint and data center perspective, it doesn't occupy much space. As everything moves to cloud, there are requirements to avoid excess spending on data centers, and Pure Storage FlashArray is efficient in energy consumption and is environmentally friendly.

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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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ITAdmini18be

IT Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

Point-in-time restore capabilities are built into the storage appliance

Our first impression when we were introduced to the product was very good. I still think it's very good. They are truly different. The whole product is based on point-in-time restore capabilities built into their storage appliance, and no one else I know does that. I'd rate it a 10 out of 10 because it does everything that we have asked it to do.

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

Pros

"We experience fast demos and zero downtime; we do not experience any downtime with Pure Storage, thanks to resilience with Safe Mode, integration with backup software, and everything related to cyber resilience."

"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."

"Everpure FlashArray is probably not cheap storage, but it provides great performance, scalability, and everything a customer needs."

"Now they are trying to add more and more applications because they're getting better performance and stability."

"The most valuable features would be its performance, retrieval, recovery, and backup, and it meets the customer's expectations."

"We transferred our old architecture from hyper storage to all-flash storage, which made our business faster and more connected to our customers."

"The reliability is very good."

"We are finding the TCO of flash to be lower than SSD implementations."

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"The program is very stable."

"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."

"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."

"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, and the dedupe and compression that this array provides both do a superb job."

"It is great for applications like Microsoft Exchange, ERP, SQL and VDI; basically saved the VDI buy-in from users, as now performance was seamless in comparison to a physical PC."

"The data reduction (deduplication and compression) is the most valuable feature in our business case."

"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."

"The performance of some of the features of the solution is very powerful."

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"Any time I have needed anything, from a simple question to someone to be onsite, the customer service has been exceptional."

"The unit has been running at 100% without an issue."

"There are just too many features that are too attractive to have any regrets over buying it."

"Immediate data recovery: critical to business continuity in an age of unknown cyber threats."

"The Reduxio unit is superior in its ability to recover from any second."

"The support has been so responsive and great, they feel like one of our staff members."

"Reduxio offers a very simple, elegant user interface (design) to manage it."

"We have seen a large increase in the performance of our ERP and reporting environment, as reports which were taking minutes to run are running in seconds now."

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Cons

"They could improve the price."

"If I need to change or troubleshoot the dashboard, I cannot do it without calling support. If I want to move something critical, I cannot do it by myself. The dashboard blocks me from changing those critical things."

"Price is about the only thing that's wrong with it."

"The solution is not cheap."

"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."

"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."

"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."

"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."

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"The replication and DR capabilities could be improved, since there is no native replication technique with XtremIO."

"The only item that I can think of, is the ability to add more XtremeIO bricks as one logical partition rather than two separate ones."

"The product is highly expensive."

"The XtremIO by itself without a virtualization layer has some drawbacks, like storage replication."

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

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

"There is a limit of 8192 volumes/LUNs that can be created. This includes all volumes/LUNs presented to hosts along with all snapshots, so it becomes very easy to bump up against the limits in certain circumstances."

"Don’t use this product. There are better solutions out there."

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"The latest release limits web access to the admin console via Chrome only, and that's a bit of a hassle. Would definitely prefer something less restrictive there."

"Scalability. Reduxio has only one product, they don’t have an option, for now, to expand the storage product."

"The only thing that I'd like to see, at some point in time, is having the storage array being able to detect a ransomware attack. When you get hit by a ransomware it rewrites every block in your guest's virtual machine. So there should be a way for them to be able to detect that: "Hey, this is unusual, to see every block of this guest being rewritten all at one time," and then flag that as potential malware or ransomware."

"The user interface for the web console could be more user-friendly, while it is flashy, how to find functions is not necessarily obvious."

"The ability to look at data at a file level would be useful, as well as the ability recover at that level. Right now, you can only recover whole volumes."

"They're trying to do this, but they need to show more what their growth plan is, the development, what the next steps are, the future."

"I am waiting for the vSphere Plug-In with individual VM level control."

"I would love an iPhone app to monitor my system from outside the firewall."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"When I last looked, the prices were reasonable, and we could get an excellent array for about $60,000."

"The price was slightly higher than others, but competitive, if you consider all the other features that you get from it."

"They have a standardized fee; it's been the same price for 10 years straight. I am happy with the price — I think it's good."

"Pricing is moderate. It is neither cheap nor expensive."

"The price was more favorable than Dell EMC."

"For us, as the customer, it reduced the price of the management."

"There are no fees for licensing. The hardware is paid for only once."

"Pure Storage FlashArray's pricing is very competitive."

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"It is costly but worth it."

"XtremIO is an all-flash array, which means it's a costly solution. When compared with general mid-range storage solutions, this is more expensive. As far as I know, there are no additional costs besides the license."

"It's not cheap, but it absolutely gets the job done. I don't have any real comment regarding licensing specifically."

"Licensing is approximately $200,000 per year."

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

"With some workloads that benefit from compression and deduplication, costs are actually better than some tier 2 subsystems (while latency remains <1ms)."

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"The price of the solution should be reduced. The price matches the price of a VMAX service but it does not have the capability of a VMAX service. However, the prices of Dell EMC XtremIO can be reduceable."

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"I think they're really worth what I get. It's not cheap, but I get all I need."

"I think that the only issue that I would like to see an improvement in would be the price."

"I think that you are able to buy a minimum capacity, then grow your capacity within the box as you expand your data needs."

"One of the key selling points of the Reduxio was that it really is fully licensed for the unit. There are no additional licenses needed for the product, which really helps scalability. There were no additional options to purchase, per se. They were already wrapped into the product."

"Set up costs are minimal. We were early adopters so we received really good pricing."

"All of their new features that were released following our purchase are free of charge. For example, we are about to upgrade getting cloud integration for free."

"Depending on your cost of data loss, one ransomware or accidental deletion could pay for a Reduxio appliance."

"They have very competitive pricing and were able to work within our budget constraints as a public school."

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Comparison Review

it_user182013

Federal Civ/Intel Engineering Lead at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 1, 2015

Measuring Up: EMC XtremIO and HP 3PAR

Leading up to EMC World 2015, IT Central Station asked how I would compare EMC XtremIO and HP 3PAR. Until recently, the flash storage conversation in my organization and many others has centered on XtremIO and Pure Storage, the leaders of the all-flash array (AFA) space. To that end, I've written a…

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Manufacturing Company

13%

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10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

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13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

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Construction Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

21%

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Small Business	73
Midsize Enterprise	38
Large Enterprise	160

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Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashArray?

The only thing I think could be improved is price. The price is the main concern for our customers.

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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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Also Known As

Pure Storage FlashArray

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

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Overview

The FlashArray family delivers consistent, high-performance data services across block, file, and object workloads. As part of the Everpure Platform, it provides the foundation for a unified data plane, enabling applications to reliably access, protect, and manage data across environments with simplicity and predictability. With built-in capabilities such as inline data reduction, snapshots, replication, and ransomware resilience, FlashArray ensures efficient operations, protected data, and consistent application uptime.

As the foundation of the (unified) data plane, FlashArray enables policy-driven automation, monitoring, and centralized management while integrating across cloud and on-premises environments. Built on an Evergreen architecture, it supports non-disruptive upgrades and continuous performance improvements over time while simplifying operations at scale.

What Key Features Does FlashArray Offer?

Simplicity and Speed: Easy management and rapid performance enhancements.
Data Reduction: Effective deduplication and compression.
Flash Architecture: Seamless upgrades and outstanding resilience.
VMware Integration: Excellent compatibility with virtualization platforms.
Predictive Analytics: Strong insights for proactive management.

What Benefits Should Users Consider?

Reliability: Proactive support with minimal downtime.
Efficiency: Reduced storage footprint and enhanced data management.
Performance: Faster processing speeds and low latency.
User Experience: Simplified management with Evergreen model.

In industries like finance, banking, and healthcare, FlashArray supports high-performance storage needs focusing on virtualization and database environments. Employed for VMware workloads, disaster recovery, and storage provisioning, it ensures application performance in private or hybrid cloud setups while enhancing management of virtualized environments.

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage)

Dell XtremIO offers high performance, low latency, and excellent data services like inline deduplication and compression. Known for ease of use and scalability, it supports intense workloads while ensuring sub-millisecond response times, tailored for demanding environments.

Dell XtremIO is recognized for its ability to handle massive workloads, support high-performance applications, and provide seamless data access. It excels in delivering efficient data management with thin provisioning, impressive snapshot capabilities, and storage optimization. Users find it reliable and manageable, commonly utilized in sectors like banking and finance for its speed and consistency. However, limitations include volume restrictions, GUI issues, lack of native replication, and integration challenges with systems like VCenter. Enhancements in database workload performance and deduplication are desired, alongside improvements in support and training.

What are the key features of Dell XtremIO?

Inline Deduplication and Compression: Provides efficient data reduction, saving storage space.
Scalability: Handles growing data needs without compromising performance.
Snapshot Capabilities: Allows for quick and easy recovery of data.
Thin Provisioning: Optimizes storage usage efficiently.
High Performance: Ensures sub-millisecond response times across workloads.

What benefits and ROI do users seek in reviews?

Reliability: Consistently delivers high-speed data access and performance.
Manageability: Simple operations with efficient data management features.
Cost Efficiency: Provides value through storage optimization and data reduction.
Versatility: Supports diverse application needs across industries like finance and telecom.

In industries such as banking and finance, Dell XtremIO is implemented to manage virtual desktops, facilitate custom development, provide backup solutions, and support business applications. It's also popular among telecom companies for quick IOPS handling in on-premises cloud models and assists in complex storage operations with efficiency.

Dell Technologies

Reduxio's HX550 flash hybrid storage arrays, based on Reduxio's TimeOS storage operating system allow you to recover application data to any second in the past, eliminates most of the complexity associated with managing storage, and provides exceptional performance and efficiency, far exceeding anything available today.

Reduxio

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Nielsen, Lamar Advertising, LinkedIn, Betfair, UT-Dallas

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Array Networks, Barnstable Police Department, Catbird, Dingley Press, El Dorado County Office of Education, One Workplace

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