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."Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"It has good stability for our company."
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"Even through upgrades, there is no downtime, not even a hiccup for users."
"InfoSight provides real-time reporting, it gives you information about your different volumes, how the arrays are being used, I/O, performance in general."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"It's easy to use, it's just like 3PAR. I made clusters of 32 hosts with 50 volumes and that took barely an hour. I scripted a lot of it, filled in the names of volumes, the names of servers."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"InfoSight has identified controller failures or performance issues."
"I have found the convergence rate and deduplication the most valuable features."
"InfoSight is a valuable feature."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"Management: At the time, there was no snapshot scheduler, so I had to write XSnapCourier to address it. The sad thing is that even after the newest release, which includes a native scheduler, most customers using XSnapCourier chose to stick with it due to a more feature-rich experience."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"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 large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks."
"HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides."
"I would like to see native network attached storage (NAS) functionality. Our customers are looking for NAS, and Nimble can't give it to them."
"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."
"I really would like to see synchronous replication. This is something that when we have multiple arrays in our environment and being able to do something like a zero RPO."
"The way the market is going, supporting NVMe storage would be useful as a step up."
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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