EMC XtremIO Flash Storage (discontinued) vs. NetApp FAS Storage Arrays

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
EMC XtremIO Flash Storage (discontinued)
Score 6.4 out of 10
N/A
XtremIO was a flash storage from EMC that is now discontinued. Dell Technologies instead offers the PowerStore series.N/A
NetApp FAS Storage Arrays
Score 8.5 out of 10
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NetApp's FAS series systems offers a storage array system for enterprises.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
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Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
EMC XtremIO Flash Storage (discontinued)
8.0
1 Ratings
13% below category average
NetApp FAS Storage Arrays
-
Ratings
Flash Array Performance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Flash Array Integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Compression10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Simplicity5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Power Savings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
EMC XtremIO Flash Storage (discontinued)NetApp FAS Storage Arrays
Likelihood to Recommend
6.2
(3 ratings)
8.7
(13 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
2.0
(1 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
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.
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NetApp
It is very easy to use with NFS. Creating new volumes and mounting to servers such as ESXi or Linux is a breeze. It does also support CIFS but it is far less intuitive and requires much more effort. Replicated data is also very simple and robust in the form of SnapVaults or SnapMirrors. This data is either immediately or periodically replicated to a peer FAS in the cluster for retention.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • 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.
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NetApp
  • The selling point for NetApp FAS is the application and data protection integration capabilities they provide.
  • We have been able to use NetApp FAS in a variety of use cases with a standard set of management tools.
  • NetApp FAS has evolved over the years from just NAS to also include block protocols. At this time they support almost all industry standard protocols.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Its expensive but worth it
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NetApp
  • Deduplication job runs at certain times and creates a large CPU overhead for the system
  • Management of a volumes, disk groups, LUNs, etc. is a burden to manage and is not efficient with storage capacity
  • Upgrades are complicated and not "non-disruptive"
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Usability
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NetApp
It does have a really nice and easy to use web interface to do pretty much anything you need with it. It was very simple to configure our volumes and luns and connect them to our VMWare environment using the interface. It has options to rename, shrink, grow, and other things with our luns and volumes. It was nice and easy to read graphs to see where you stand on your storage usage at a glance.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
This was one area of real disappointment. EMC support was very slow to schedule work like installations and upgrades. Break/fix support was fairly standard. After the Dell merger, things have started improving but there is a lot left to be desired here.
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NetApp
NetApp support in Brazil is managed by its partners. We know in other countries, such as the US and NO, they have support directly from Netapp. We have a very good NetApp partner working with us since the beginning, on both the implementation and daily support. Very few cases needed to be escalated to NetApp support, most of the cases are handled and satisfyingly closed by the partner.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
I/O delievered by XtremIO can't be compared with any other flash storage. Existing relationship with vendor and pressure to improve I/O bottleneck was the key objective
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NetApp
NetApp stacked nicely and gave enterprise-level usability for snapshot-based backups. Our previous RPO was several hours. It was selected prior to me arriving at the company, but It was selected for the hardware refreshes due to its compatibility with several other vendors, like CommVault and VMware.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Using XtremIO has made our VDI much more palatable for users.
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NetApp
  • The speed of file recovery is the biggest positive impact. Recovering from a ransomware attack in minutes is something you can certainly brag about.
  • Integration with products like Exchange and SQL can certainly speed up normal day to day processes. Not just in backup recovery situations either.
  • Redundant paths make migrations and updates very easy with no downtime.
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