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Dell Unity XT Unified Storage

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What is Dell Unity XT Unified Storage?

Dell Unity XT hybrid flash arrays are storage systems for running general purpose workloads that do not require the low latencies and speed of all flash/NVMe architectures. Unity XT hybrid flash arrays balance performance, efficiency, features or outcomes.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Dell Unity XT Unified Storage has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 36 ratings of Dell Unity XT Unified Storage's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Data Compression

    Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements

    Category average: 8.5

  • Power Savings

    Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives

    Category average: 8.1

  • Flash Array Performance

    Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives

    Category average: 9.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Flash Array Integration

    Integration with hypervisors and applications

    Category average: 9.2

  • Simplicity

    Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training

    Category average: 9

  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades

    Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required

    Category average: 9.3

Reviews

What users are saying about Dell Unity XT Unified Storage.
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High-Performing System with Easy Interface and Accessible Capabilities.

Incentivized
Jeniffer LuisView profile
Project Delivery Manager in Information Technology at Very Good Security (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dell EMC Unity is an easy solution and all its components are easy to set and understand how they perform and easy manipulation through the system dashboard which is also very simple to adapt. Dell EMC Unity allows easy data moving and easy to monitor multiple processes of different data and other information easily and the reporting using Dell EMC Unity is cost-effective.

Pros

  • Data security is excellent on Dell EMC Unity.
  • Ability to monitor data transfer operations.
  • Easy to get effective operations reports.

Cons

  • Interface security setting for new users.
  • Monitoring of multiple services.
  • Getting to adapt on the tool advance functionalities.

Return on Investment

  • Cost-effective on reports creation.
  • Excellent monitoring solution.
  • Services management is effective.

Other Software Used

Linode, Pure Storage FlashBlade, IBM LinuxONE

If you want to have Oracle DB running smoothly, use DELL EMC unity storage

Incentivized
Lukas MizeraView profile
Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist - Storage Management in Information Technology at Kyndryl (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The client uses the solution for Oracle databases in the development and pre-production environment. It doesn't affect the gold and silver application area. The Dell EMC Unity storage enables customer developers to create multiple copies of any databases within its feature of array snapshot. Not forgetting, DEU applied to the Oracle databases analysis, how it can help customers with data compression and space savings. These savings are visible in the storage space cost.

Pros

  • Enables you to create multiple copies of any database.
  • Data savings feature with compression.
  • Integrity with VMWare, RHEL, Oracle.
  • The best option is a midrange unified storage array in a customer environment.
  • Some models support NMMe.
  • Copy Data Management (iCDM), Data-At-Rest-Encryption (D@RE).

Cons

  • Time-consuming configuration.
  • Missing HW support on the customer site.

Return on Investment

  • Power consumption reduction.
  • Compression, deduplication.
  • Dynamic pools feature.
  • No need to update the firmware so often.

Alternatives Considered

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage, IBM Power, NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays and IBM FlashSystem

Other Software Used

IBM FlashSystem, IBM FlashSystem 5100, IBM FlashSystem 9200, IBM FlashSystem A9000, IBM DS8880F, IBM SAN48B-5, NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays, NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays, IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage, IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems), IBM Power

Usability

Excellent NAS solution

Incentivized
Jagmender KharbView profile
Technical Team Lead in Information Technology at Wipro Limited (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dell EMC Unity is an easy solution and all its components are easy to set and understand how they perform. Dell EMC Unity allow easy data moving and easy to monitor multiple processor of different application and data base.

Pros

  • Data Security are excellent.
  • Easy to setup and use for daily operation.
  • Perfect suit for NAS file server.
  • Disk provisioning.

Cons

  • More integrated feature.
  • Initial configuration take much time.
  • Monitoring for multiple services.

Return on Investment

  • Good Performance on IOP's.
  • Data compression.
  • Dynamic pool feature.
  • Power saving.
  • Maximum uptime.

Alternatives Considered

IBM FlashSystem

Stable, Reliable and easy to maintain data storage for different types of data.

Incentivized
Vinay DamleView profile
Associate Director in Information Technology at UBS (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dell EMC Unity is used as storage for 1. Any type of data is structured or unstructured 2. Storing the various types of image-related data 3. Archiving any type of historical data in a compressed manner

Pros

  • It is really awesome to store structured data along with unstructured data.
  • Excellent UI, very user friendly in terms of use.
  • Reliable, stable, easy to work and easy to maintain.

Cons

  • Networking file system integration could be made better.
  • UI depiction of data seems to be lagging a bit.
  • The configuration is way too much and time taking.

Return on Investment

  • Very good investment for image related data.
  • Good in data compression.
  • Very reliable, stable and hence easy to maintain.

Alternatives Considered

HPE Nimble Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray

Other Software Used

Azure Cosmos DB, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Dell EMC Unity Work Well In Every Environments

Incentivized
Utkarsh Khandelwal
System Administrator in Information Technology at Jaquar & Company Pvt Ltd (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Dell EMC Unity storage for Linux servers to maintain the data backup of applications and databases which are running over the Linux servers. Dell EMC Unity has provided enough storage capacity, which is sufficient for our environments.

Pros

  • Dell EMC Unity Storage interface is easy to operate for daily operation
  • Dell EMC Unity provides a simple method for disk provision and mapping to Unix servers as per demand
  • Dell EMC Unity storage provides the good backup solution for application data
  • Dell EMC Unity provides the data stability

Cons

  • We did not face any critical business issues since we started using this storage. Overall we have good experience with this system.

Return on Investment

  • Dell EMC Unity provides the data compression feature.
  • Dell EMC Unity provides enough storage capacity to maintain large organization data.
  • Dell EMC Unity provides business stability and excellent uptime which is really great for organizations to increase the production productivity.

Alternatives Considered

IBM FlashSystem