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."Support has been helpful."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"Speed and reliability:"
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"The most valuable feature is the management of Nimble Storage, InfoSight. This is like a cloud. That's really a very nice feature. I think that's the only reason to buy Nimble Storage."
"The most valuable feature is InfoSight, and the ability that InfoSight gives you, from insight within your environment to what is going on at the storage layer."
"We like the performance."
"Performance, reliability, InfoSight, the ability to upgrade the O/S on the SAN without taking it down, and cost."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"Not only is it high performing, but it is also more compact and fits better in our storage arrays than equipment from other storage providers."
"The performance and the processor are good."
"It was not proactive communication."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"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."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"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."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"When sizing the array based on requirements the option to add more network cards for throughput would be something to help clients."
"We face challenges with hardware delivery."
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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