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."The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"The program is very stable."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"Nimble's support is awesome and one of the best. You sort of get a Tier 3 plus guy every time that you call, no matter if it is a Tier 0 issue. This is super helpful in case we ever have problems."
"Some of the beneficial features I have found are the Block-level backups, the interface is easy to use, backups work well and the portal is functional."
"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."
"VMware integration, why is pretty self-explanatory."
"It's very easy to set up. It's very stable, and it has got great deduplication, especially for hypervisor users."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"The replay and IOPS work well."
"Deduplication and compression."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"It needs a way to determine the deduplication of each LUN and what the impact would be if we were to move data from one LUN to another."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"There are customers who want to do some different things with the Microsoft Resilient File System. There are some customers who want to do different types of connectivity. I do not know if I would call that an improvement, necessarily, because if you want that, you should get a different product."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"The large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks."
"The scalability could be better."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 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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