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."Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"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 code upgrades are very smooth."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The program is very stable."
"Speed and reliability:"
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"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."
"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."
"The deduplication and compression capabilities are powerful."
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"The solution's predictive analytics is good. It helps to save costs."
"I really like the form factor, which is nice and compact and small."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"Scalability is another reason we chose to go with Nimble: upgrading to another storage array. If we need higher capacity or throughput, we can just replace controllers, we don't have to replace or forklift-upgrade the whole chassis."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"It is very expensive to scale. You have to buy an additional system to extend from one disc, for instance. It is scalable, but extremely expensive to do so."
"If you are looking at flash storage solutions, XtremIO doesn't offer any unique features. Most of my customers are migrating their workload from XtremIO to other formats because of this."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"The solution should allow for easier configurations."
"HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"The scalability could be better."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"HPE Nimble Storage should improve its latency. It is expensive."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 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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