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."For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"It is great for applications like Microsoft Exchange, ERP, SQL and VDI; basically saved the VDI buy-in from users, as now performance was seamless in comparison to a physical PC."
"Linear performance – The XtremIO wasn’t the fastest in all tests against other all flash arrays, but even with a massive workload, the response time and user experience were absolutely predictable with no sharp drop-offs."
"Speed and reliability:"
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"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."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"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."
"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's uptime is fantastic. It's 100 percent. In addition, Nimble's storage capacity efficiency is very effective."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"It has totally taken away a layer of time and effort, management-wise, from two engineers to give that time back into developing more solutions. It has provided us essentially with a platform to go away and be more creative, knowing that that is stable and can do whatever we chuck at it."
"I have found the convergence rate and deduplication the most valuable features."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"I really like the form factor, which is nice and compact and small."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"The price should be lower."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"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."
"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."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"I’d like to see in-line deduplication extended to Nimble non-flash (called “Hybrid”) arrays, even if it’s only the C500 and higher controllers that support it."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"The large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks."
"The scalability could be better."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
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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