Arcserve OneXafe vs. DDN SFA7990XTM Hybrid Flash Storage Platform

For SMB file storage Exablox is great, but as an ESXi datastore it still needs work.

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• Exablox is simple to setup and relatively easy to use.
• Exablox is priced very competitively and is a good value for the cost.
• Exablox has good customer service.

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• Exablox is still in its infancy as a company and in some respects the product feels like a version 1.0.
• Integration with VMware ESXi has some bugs that need to be figured out.

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The price for Exablox was very appealing. If we can resolve the NFS datastore issues we are seeing in VMware, this is a perfect solution for a ESXi datastore. Once that issue is resolved, I will give Exablox a higher rating.

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Again, the initial install, setup and config was simple through a web browser.

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Since the day we installed Exablox we have not had any down-time. The storage resources have been available 100% of the time.

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SMB file access has been very responsive. We have not seen any slowness. Also, in using Exablox as tier 1 storage in our VMware environment, the VMs performed great. No slowness issues.

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Exablox has been very responsive to our requests. They communicate very well and are extremely knowledgable

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Straightforward and simple implementation. We completed the implementation in less than 2 hours.

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Exablox was much less expensive than other storage arrays and I think there are a lot of reasons to purchase them. I believe that as the product matures, it will be a great option for storage.

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We have not tried to scale Exablox so we are not familiar with this.

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• We purchased Exablox specifically for our ESXi environment, so we are hoping to get the wrinkles worked out to see a greater return on our investment.

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