We performed a comparison between Dell Powerstore and HPE Nimble Storage based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, HPE Nimble Storage seems to be the marginally superior solution. Our reviewers found Dell Powerstore’s lack of a data replication tool to be an area where it can be improved.
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"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."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"This solution is very useful to us as we use it internally for all of the services that we need. We use it as a lab and we showcase new technology to the customers and how it can help them going forward."
"Its flexibility is valuable because we have had some moments where we had to adapt, and it has been quite flexible."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"When compared to Pure Storage, Dell PowerStore's cost was quite attractive."
"The PowerStore's compression ratio is even higher than the Unity system."
"The replay and IOPS work well."
"The setup was very, very simple. When we got our AF5000, no kidding, we had it up in production within two hours"
"Deduplication and compression."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"The tool’s support is feasible."
"Its speed, ease of use, and it has been completely reliable."
"The capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"They could improve the price."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"Data reduction needs improvement."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"We are happy with the service in general. The only thing would be the price of the platform."
"Dell PowerStore is a good solution overall, but some models could support hypervisors better by allowing for more customization and flexibility for customer needs."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"We are looking for the Dell PowerStore to become more mature to maximize our use cases."
"The customer service and support are bad."
"The upgrades themselves are running fine, but after the upgrade is when we have a problem. With the update to 1.4, we had a head crash. They told us, 'This is a known issue. Please upgrade to 2.' We upgraded to 2 and, one week later they told us, 'Yeah, there are some issues in 2.0.0. You can lose data. Please upgrade to 2.0.1.' Overall, they need to make the system stable."
"I would like to see native network attached storage (NAS) functionality. Our customers are looking for NAS, and Nimble can't give it to them."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"I really would like to see synchronous replication. This is something that when we have multiple arrays in our environment and being able to do something like a zero RPO."
"I don't think it is officially released yet, but the main reason that we chose Nimble is because of the sync rep feature. So, I would like to see that further evolve. This feature will be essential for our setups."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"There should be faster interfaces."
"I would like deduplication by default on all the volumes. I still don't understand (or know why) dedupe isn't enabled for the templates out-of-the-box. We have to go in and manually enable it each and every time."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN, IBM FlashSystem and NetApp AFF. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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