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've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"Speed and reliability:"
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"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."
"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."
"They could probably improve an organization with just about anything. It is all a matter of ease of use, ease of the implementation, etc."
"It has allowed us to upgrade our DMS to the latest version and reuse the older array as the DR storage for VMware SRM."
"HPE Nimble Storage is very stable and performs well."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"If a ransomware or enterprise-level attack happens, my infrastructure remains totally secure. If any virtual machine gets damaged or collapses, we have built a backup solution, which will take a minute to restore the same version of HPE Nimble Storage in our company."
"Our virtual admins are able to take control of Nimble and know how to allocate the storage, whenever it is required, thus reducing time."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"Regarding their support, you always get through to somebody who knows exactly what they're talking about."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"I would like hardware capacity additions to be a little more flexible. The upgrade path for the existing XTremIO units requires you to purchase 2 XBricks at a time and they need to be the same capacity as the existing XBricks."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"I want to see the full integration with OneView. I know they have started it, but I haven't had a chance to look at and evaluate it."
"There are customers who want to do some different things with the Microsoft Resilient File System. There are some customers who want to do different types of connectivity. I do not know if I would call that an improvement, necessarily, because if you want that, you should get a different product."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"The way the market is going, supporting NVMe storage would be useful as a step up."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
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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