Dell Unity XT Unified Storage Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 10 out of 10

Score

10 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Dell Unity XT Unified Storage are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

User-Friendly Interface: Many users have found the user interface of Dell EMC Unity to be excellent and very user-friendly, making it easy to operate on a daily basis. The intuitive design and layout of the interface have been praised by numerous reviewers.

Reliable Performance: The Dell EMC Unity storage arrays have been consistently performing up to expectations, earning praise from users for their reliability and stability. With no issues of latency reported, the performance of Dell EMC Unity, especially with its all-flash storage option, has been deemed fast and reliable.

Seamless Integration: The integration of Dell EMC Unity with VMware has been highlighted as a valuable feature by several reviewers. This seamless integration enhances the overall management experience, providing users with a streamlined workflow and efficient data management capabilities.

Reviews

20 Reviews

Dell EMC Unity Work Well In Every Environments

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 18, 2022

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Dell EMC Unity Storage is well suited for every environment and organization, but it depends on how and where you use this storage. Dell EMC Unity storage is capable of managing every type of business requirement to maintain the data. We are using this storage in our Linux environments to maintain the application data backup.

Utkarsh Khandelwal

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

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Excellent NAS solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 1, 2022

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Dell EMC Unity is an easy system and very flexible components, easily we can use all its functions. EMC Unity is well suited for all types of projects and organizations small, mid, and large. Reliable storage solution with great technical support.

Jagmender Kharb

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

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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High Performance with Easy User Interface

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 30, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dell EMC Unity currently used as storage for both structured data and unstructured data. Storing the different type of images related to data. Dell EMC Unity is the easy solution and its all components are easy to set and understand how they perform.

Pros

Its good platform to store the both structured data and unstructured data
Reliable, stable
User Interface are easy to manage work in daily
Ability to monitored the data transfer operation

Cons

Multiple service monitoring
Initial configuration takes too much time

Likelihood to Recommend

Its really well designed where we need to maintain and store different type of data like structured and unstructured, images etc.

Great reporting feature and easy to use. Its well suited for all type of environments and provide the high performance.

Amit Gupta

AIX Administrator in Information Technology at DXC Technology Pvt Ltd (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Dell EMC Unity--well designed for pre-production environments

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Dell EMC Unity as storage for VMware Storage and file sharing for Windows based in our clients' projects. We also used this storage for pre-production environment servers. This product allows us to create multiple copies of any database. We have used this product as a NAS file server and it's easy to upgrade storage when required.

Pros

Data saving with compression
This storage are good for Pre-production environments
Easy to set up
Perfectly suited as a NAS File server

Cons

Product cost
GUI Should be improves with all features
More integrated features

Likelihood to Recommend

Dell EMC Unity is well designed for pre-production environments and other normal usage. A big company setup may not consider this product for critical production environments.

Debopriya Bhattacharya

AIX Administrator in Information Technology at Kyndryl Solution Pvt Ltd (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 12, 2022

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited when needs to deal with different types of data like structured, unstructured, image, blobs, etc. It is not so good when dealing with networking file system data.

Vinay Damle

Associate Director in Information Technology at UBS (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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High-Performing System with Easy Interface and Accessible Capabilities.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 12, 2022

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Dell EMC Unity is an easy system and very flexible component and very easy to navigate while providing effective services and management of multiple project information management and the data pulling from the supported third-party platform is easy and quick. Excellent reporting features and easy to use and the analytics tools are amazing.

Jeniffer Luis

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

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Dell EMC Unity easily GUI management

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 7, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Dell EMC Unity as a storage array for VMware storage. Also, we use the unity array for file storage based on Windows File sharing. For connection, we use the onboard CNA connections at 10GBit\s. The array is managed thru a user-friendly GUI. For the support and upgrades, we rely on the Dell EMC support team.

Pros

Storage management.
User-friendly GUI.
GUI Dashboards.

Cons

Data deduplication is only available on a full flash array.

Likelihood to Recommend

Dell EMC unity is well suited for storage environments in the small range, mid-range up to high-end range storage array's. Configuration is made easy with user-friendly GU, even the first deployment can be done with GUI.

Verified User

Professional in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

February 5, 2022

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Midrange storage level solution for customers who want "test" databases functionality in a pre-production environment. Ideal for development environment with compares to other storage products. Costs are less than for faster performance-tuned types. A very important factor is to have not only support from Dell but a local person with knowledge of DEU elements.

Lukas Mizera

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

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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A good storage array , way better than any others.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 5, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Dell EMC Unity is being used as a network-attached storage file server that hosts file sharing for the bulk of our employees. Prior to Unity, the file shares were hosted on a physical server running Windows OS. We needed a system that could do exactly what the file data between two data storage servers connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients.

Pros

Carbon copy of the Data used In the storage system.
Convenient to use.
Available for one to use whenever or however one wishes.

Cons

Refurbished data obtained takes a lot of time to complete.
The replica of stored data cannot be accessible.

Likelihood to Recommend

After considering some of the solutions from other vendors, we chose Dell EMC Unity. We were price-conscious and wanted to choose a device that would bring a familiar amount of money to the table. I was looking for a device that could support a flash drive as a read cache for my frequently used files, but I also needed a device that fits my size and budget.

Verified User

Executive in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Dell EMC Unity non-flash

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 2, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use the Dell EMC Unity as a NAS file server hosting file shares for the majority of our users. Prior the unity we were using a Physical server running Windows OS to host the file shares. We were looking for a solution that would replicated the file data between two data centers with very low RPO. The EMC unity's hosted in both datacenters allows for a 60 minute RPO in case of a DR event.

Pros

High availability
Data Replication
Ease of use and management

Cons

Some administrative settings can only be changed using CLI
Some version do not allow for de-duplication
Upgrades through support have long lead times

Likelihood to Recommend

The Dell EMC Unity is best suited for SMB workloads where ease of use and administration needs to be the focus. For our specific use case it is perfectly suited as a NAS file server and is easy to upgrade storage when required (although not inexpensive). In prior positions it was also used for vmware datastores which worked similarly as the older VNX models.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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