We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"The technical support is very good."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"It offers a high level of availability, so pretty much near zero downtime."
"It is very stable. We expect superior performance and reliability from this particular storage system."
"First, it's an enterprise storage solution. This is very important for us. Another important feature is replication."
"Based on our experience with VMAX, there isn't any hardware failure or something like that in PowerMax. Performance-wise also, everything is fine. We haven't faced any performance issues or any hardware failure. Its performance is great as compared to VMAX. Its I/O per second rate is higher than the old model."
"The solution has good operability and easy scalability."
"It has dramatically cut down the footprint in our data center and reduced the amount of raw disk capacity that we needed to purchase."
"We like the compression, dedupe, and I/O on the PowerMax. They are better than on the XtremIO."
"Dell PowerMax NVMe's tech support is good."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"It's easy to use, it's just like 3PAR. I made clusters of 32 hosts with 50 volumes and that took barely an hour. I scripted a lot of it, filled in the names of volumes, the names of servers."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"The deduplication and compression capabilities are powerful."
"It's given us more time to do the important things, less time worrying about SANs and failures and picking up the pieces. It just works."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"The solution is not cheap."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Dell should work on their marketing strategies to make the product more visible on the market. They should promote the product's compatibility with IBM, as not everyone knows it."
"The price could be lower, and we are unhappy with the price."
"Although they call it unified storage where you have SAN and NAS, with a NAS implementation on top of a SAN, the NAS implementation is a little complicated and clumsy. As SAN, as block storage, it is very powerful... If they could provide a very good NAS implementation, it would be better, so that customers don't have to look for other simple solutions for NAS."
"There is also room for improvement in the PowerMax architecture and hardware itself. They should design the PowerMax on the basis of PCIe 4.0. I would like to see the possibility of an NVMe drive that operates on PCIe 4.0 and not PCIe 3.0."
"I would like the scalability to improve, as it requires additional footprints."
"We had challenges again with the initial setup. I don't know if there was a gap during the requirement-collection phase, but the box was partially delivered to us with missing parts and it delayed the implementation by about 60 days. It was not as smooth as I would have hoped."
"The technical support is lacking. We are working with Dell EMC to get some better understanding of this."
"There is some room to grow, especially with some of the installation quirks."
"The solution could reduce its price."
"You could argue that it would be preferable if everything were cheaper in order to save taxpayer money."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"We face challenges with hardware delivery."
"I'd like to see more granular quality of service rules. Currently, I think currently there's not much room for maximum IOPS, but there's not an option for minimum IOPS for a given volume."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"I would like to see more integrations."
"We have had some stability issues with one array which has happened twice during subsequent software updates but is due to a bad Postgres database."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp NVMe AFF A800, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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