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Quantum DXi Series

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Quantum DXi Series is public company Quantum's deduplication solution.

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Good backup and DR solution for Ent

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Backup and replication for VMs are going well with our Quantum DXi solution.
  • Deduplication level is great, the GUI informative and well placed.
  • Differential backup replicated properly and fast to DR site.

Cons

  • Cost of licenses to unlock free space should be better.
  • Life circle of storage will be longer for my expectation.
  • Space reclamation should be improved.

Return on Investment

  • Really positive ROI, backup and DR are running well.
  • Works as expected.
  • Price for support and maintenance mostly suits our expectations.

Alternatives Considered

Pure Storage FlashArray and Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

Other Software Used

Hyper-V, AdaptUX, Epicor ERP

DXi Does it all

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Dave TreamerView profile
Enterprise Storage Administrator in Information Technology at UnityPoint Health (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • A perfect solution for D2D backups. We are seeing a large savings with the de-duplication piece.
  • Very versatile device. We like being able to use any backup protocol we need to for the many diverse jobs we have in the medical industry.
  • Interface is simple and easy to use.

Cons

  • We had some expansion issues with the DXi 8500s and needed to implement a secondary DXi6902 system to allow for the expansion required.

Other Software Used

Symantec NetBackup

Quantum DXi as a Storage Target for Netbackup

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Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • It compacts data very well , we have 2.4 petabytes sitting on 240tb
  • It runs constantly typically without any major issues even after a reboot
  • The auto firmware update feature works well
  • Support is usually very good

Cons

  • Every feature on the Quantum requires a license purchase, this is seriously annoying and drives the cost of the device up
  • The cost of the device is somewhat high
  • Active Directory integration is a bit of a pain

Return on Investment

  • Storage Target for data that can be Deduped
  • Using accent to do inline dedupe is great
  • Works well with netbackup accelerator and netbackup

Alternatives Considered

Veritas NetBackup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage, Dell Force10 Ethernet Switches, Dell PowerEdge R, Dell PowerVault and Dell EMC Celerra (Discontinued)

Other Software Used

Veritas NetBackup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Enterprise Vault, Dell EMC Celerra (Discontinued), Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage, Dell PowerEdge R, Dell PowerVault, Dell Force10 Ethernet Switches