#1 most frequent
United States of America
71.4%10 installations of 14
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Flash Array Performance
Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives
Category average: 8.8
Flash Array Integration
Integration with hypervisors and applications
Category average: 9.2
Data Compression
Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements
Category average: 7.5
Areas for Improvement
Non-Intrusive Upgrades
Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required
Category average: 8.9
Simplicity
Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training
Category average: 9.2
Power Savings
Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives
Category average: 7.9
Who Buys & Uses Dell Unity XT Unified Storage
#2 most frequent
Australia
7.1%1 installation of 14
#3 most frequent
Brazil
7.1%1 installation of 14
Dell's Unity Storage is worth the money, but there are better options
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used the Unity Storage as the target for our VMware environment. We had it connected to a stack of Dell Hosts and carved into appropriate LUNS that were presented to the environment. It housed all of our production server data.
Pros
- The Unity was easy to use.
- The Unity was incredibly reliable.
- The Unity was affordable - not the cheapest, but not the most expensive either.
Cons
- When the ‘renewal’ came up for the support, the up charge was off putting.
- It wasn’t possible to just upgrade parts of the hardware, like the controllers.
- Adding chassis/enclosures was difficult and prohibitively expensive.
Return on Investment
- The Unity was pretty set it and forget it - support costs were the only real driver for replacement.
- The Unity was simple and straightforward to maintain.
- The Unity was stable and reliable.
- The support contract costs and lack of hardware upgrades made us reevaluate continuing to use the product.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Pure Storage FlashArray and HPE StoreOnce
Other Software Used
Kali Linux, Kibana, CoPilot AI
High-Performing System with Easy Interface and Accessible Capabilities.
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
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
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.
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)