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."We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"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 most valuable features are that it is fast and reliable."
"We've seen great enhancements from the performance point of view. There's good availability, stability, and continuity, but the performance actually has increased by 60 or 70%."
"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 of Dell EMC XtremIO is the data protection (DP) group, it is one of the most advanced features in these types of arrays. The dedupe and compression that this array provides both do a superb job."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"Thin storage allocation"
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"The performance and the processor are good."
"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."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution's uptime is fantastic. It's 100 percent. In addition, Nimble's storage capacity efficiency is very effective."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"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."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"The product could be improved by reducing the pricing and having better organization in their technical support team."
"The way the market is going, supporting NVMe storage would be useful as a step up."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"We are doing a hybrid and are moving some machines to Microsoft Azure to run in hybrid mode. We are checking the availability of extra software-defined storage so that we can configure it."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"There should be faster interfaces."
"When sizing the array based on requirements the option to add more network cards for throughput would be something to help clients."
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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