We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO 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."Technical support is good."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"The first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"The program is very stable."
"Thin storage allocation"
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"Nimble's phone-home capability is decent. The compression, dedupe, and caching are also solid. Generally, I like the simplicity. It's almost a set-and-forget solution."
"The quality of the service and management tools let us make contractual guarantees for storage performance for customers. That's something we couldn't do before."
"InfoSight is helpful because it is proactive support."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"Even through upgrades, there is no downtime, not even a hiccup for users."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"This product is very easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"They could improve the price."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"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."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"When sizing the array based on requirements the option to add more network cards for throughput would be something to help clients."
"I would like to see the network portion of the product improve, especially with some of the things which are coming out from Aruba and HPE. Both are innovating more of an automated networking. I would like to see our Nimble meld into that and do some automated networking."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell XtremIO vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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