XtremIO Gotcha

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XtremIO Gotcha
While at VMworld last month, I was networking with attendees when I mentioned my current employer purchased an XtremIO half X-Brick for a VDI project. One of the guys told me an issue with the array I didn’t believe, so I went to verify it from other sources. The ‘rumour’, was that to upgrade from the current 2.4.x firmware, to version 3.0, the data would be lost, and there’d need to be a complete backup/restore. My first thoughts were “that’s crazy“.

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On disruptive storage upgrades…
First of all, yes, it is accurate to call the XtremIO 2.4->3.0 upgrade a disruptive operation. When customers using XtremIO 2.4 migrate to 3.0, there are big changes, big improvements. Think 2x better performance. Think 2-4x higher utilization due to compression.