Dell Unity XT vs PowerStore OnPrem Pros
November 12, 2024
In this episode of OnPrem Pros, we talk about a customer who was using an older Dell Unity XT Array and how they made the decision between a new Dell Unity XT Array and the Dell PowerStore.
Guests
- Josh Moss – xByte Technologies Solutions Architect
- Tyler Young – xByte Technologies Solutions Architect
- Ryan Brown – xByte Solutions CMO
Current Environment
- Customer – one of the largest gaming manufacturers
- Unity 380 Array
What factors did they consider
- Performance – clustering load balanced PowerStore storage devices
- Amount of space needed – Unity 11U vs PowerStore 2U
- Amount of power needed
- NVMe Flash Drives
- Data Reduction Ratio – Unity 3:1 vs PowerStore 5:1
- Write intensive workload benefiting from NV RAM Cache drives
The xByte Difference
- Unbiased presentation of options
- Demo of the UI to make the customer comfortable changing from Unity
- Access to hands on solutions lab to play around with UI on their own
- Deployment Engineer involved from the beginning, so information lost when transitioning