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."It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"Thin storage allocation"
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"We have found the advantage of it is the easy, rapid setup, but also that it is very easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"They have really thought through their solution. They've covered everything."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"InfoSight has allowed us to centralize our management, understanding how it correlates to the array. It has identified a network issue in the network configuration of ESXi hosts. It enables us to get servers back up faster by 25 percent."
"The stability is awesome. The product has always been reliable. It has been 100 percent up. We have never had any downtime with it. Even if a controller fails due to our firmware or whatever, it rolls over to the second one and keeps us running."
"We get storage access without the need for more human monitoring of those resources."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"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."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"We've encountered challenges in integrating other products with Dell Xtremio, as it tends to be more vendor-locked. This means we can't easily explore other solutions that might work alongside Dell."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"A feature that would be a nice addition to the next release would be a filer option. A filer option so that you could connect the sim or NFS or chips like NetApp does for NAS functionality."
"I wish they would put the InfoSight page back the way it was. I got in it for the first time about two years ago, and it looked the same for about a year and a half. Then, about six months ago, it changed. There are different options now. I can still get to where I need to go, but it feels like it takes longer, where before it didn't. Also, I felt like I had a lot more options before. I have to do a lot more to digging now to get to where I need to go. I just wish they had their old page back."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"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."
"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."
"It was a bit expensive."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
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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