Dell Unity XT vs PowerStore | xByte On Prem Pros
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