EMC XtremIO Flash Storage (discontinued)

Score6.4 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

Reviews

3 Reviews

Great array for its time, but not today's choice

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

October 28, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

XtremIO was originally purchased to provide a high-performance storage platform for our critical systems. It is being used across the entire organization as a storage option in our VMWare environment for high-performance datastores. We also use it for some FC attached storage for our physical servers which run AIX.

Pros

The storage array is very fast. The performance is great.
It integrates well into the other ancillary products EMC offers.

Cons

It takes up a large amount of room in the datacenter. A dedicated rack is required for even a minimal configuration.
The management interface is a bit slow and feels dated, but it gets the job done.

Likelihood to Recommend

XtremIO would be useful for any production storage environment, or even any staging or development environment where performance mattered. It would not be ideal to use for backup storage.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Make your VDIs fly with XtremIO

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 15, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using XtremIO flash storage for our Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure as well as storage for our Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases hosted on VMware versions 6.0 and 6.5

Pros

The deduplication and compression is very good. This especially helps for VDI applications.
It is easy to setup and map hosts to volumes.
The new HTML5 console is much better than the older Java.

Cons

It would be good to have better wizards for frequently performed actions
VMware integration could be better, so we could report on how many iops a particular guest VM was using.

Likelihood to Recommend

XtremIO is particularly well suited to VDI and database usage.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Data de-duplication delivered with consistently high performance

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 31, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We refreshed our traditional storage solution from Hitachi VSP to Dell EMC XtremIO Flash storage part of our converged consolidation project. We were pleased with the I/O effects and noticed significant improvements to our mission critical applications. We were so impressed that we refreshed our lower/testing environment to XtremIO.

Pros

Its strong features like de-duplication and compression.
Consistent Performance ie high performance with consistently low latency
Lower environment refresh activity

Cons

Its expensive but worth it

Likelihood to Recommend

I specifically like de-duplication, compression, high I/O, thin storage allocation, snapshot (to refresh our lower env from production systems). Because of XtremIO we are now able to create instant copies with space-saving data de-duplication technology for our lower environment with easy refresh/restore operations.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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