We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT 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 Results: Dell EMC Unity XT has a slight edge in this comparison due to the higher marks it received for its scaling abilities.
"The reliability is very good."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"The solution is very reliable."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"It simplifies storage."
"We use it to implement all our VDI solutions."
"All-flash array eliminates all the overhead of tiering and a lot of the data structuring overhead involved."
"We've never had an issue with storage."
"The all-flash feature is really boosting up the VMware. It is helping our virtual machines to perform better."
"It gives me the flexibility with its ability to replicate to itself and the ability to use the Dell EMC Cloud as an option. That's always sitting there and waiting if we need it."
"It's easy to handle for administrators and it's a unified system. It's not as complex as Celerra systems or CX4 Clariions to administrate. You can do everything with one GUI."
"On a scale from one to 10, I'd probably give EMC customer support an 11. It's been really good. We do have premium support, which means if we have a problem, it gets solved really quickly."
"It is definitely one of the most robust, solid, well-performing products that I have dealt with. It is set it and forget it, which is pretty amazing."
"It has allowed us to upgrade our DMS to the latest version and reuse the older array as the DR storage for VMware SRM."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"We use a platform as a service and have multiple application vendors who comprise that platform. There are moments when those application vendors put the blame on us. By working in InfoSight, I am able to say, "No, it is not us." I can actually provide proof, either by using screenshots or through reporting."
"I have added expansion shelves on several of them. It is simple to do. You plug it in, you attach two cables, then you press one button, like "Add", and that is all you have to do."
"The most valuable features are the duplication and compression traffic. We have second storage that we can use for the synchronization of data between the data centers."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"Regarding their support, you always get through to somebody who knows exactly what they're talking about."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"The price should be lower."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"Automation could be simplified."
"Dell Unity XT could improve the compatibility of some of the features. Some of my customers had some problems. Additionally, it would be beneficial for the solution to have advanced AI and ML features."
"Dell EMC's competitor has a clustering technology. In the next release, it would be nice if they could build that into the product."
"We've got an ongoing issue with a Unity where some power supply fans spin up. We've had a whole bunch of hardware changed as a result but I still have an open SR which has been a struggle. It doesn't seem to affect performance, but it's something that we're hoping the engineers can resolve. Also, we had some issues with an upgrade where we can't manage a device, after the upgrade. So we had to have a ticket in for that."
"More integration with VMware would always be helpful, plugins that go directly into the vSphere management. A single pane of glass is always beneficial."
"Scalability for the 650F is good, but I was expecting a little bit more."
"If there's anything Dell EMC could do to get the same performance for a cheaper price, that would be great."
"It's very frustrating that it's not backward-compatible with the previous platforms, so it's a struggle for a lot of our customers."
"It could always use native replication. Then I could get rid of RecoverPoint."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"The scalability could be better."
"The large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"We are doing a hybrid and are moving some machines to Microsoft Azure to run in hybrid mode. We are checking the availability of extra software-defined storage so that we can configure it."
"The only thing that I can really compare Nimble to is all-flash because, right now, Nimble is a hybrid solution. I would like to see them come out with an all-flash alternative."
"The solution should allow for easier configurations."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem, HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN, IBM FlashSystem and NetApp AFF. See our Dell Unity XT vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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