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."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"We mostly use it for backup, because we cannot measure anything, and we are afraid to use it for surveillance systems. We were planning to use it for mostly for surveillance systems."
"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."
"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%."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"Any updates are just part of your subscription, so you don't have to buy add-ons for new features. You're continually adding value to it."
"The most valuable feature is InfoSight, and the ability that InfoSight gives you, from insight within your environment to what is going on at the storage layer."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"HPE Nimble Storage is very stable and performs well."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"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."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"I would like to have more administrative rights, for example, root-level administrative rights to the underlying OS of the storage array. We want more access to the kind of underlying infrastructure of the storage array rather than relying on support. However, most companies are looking to have more managed solutions which is the opposite direction of what I want."
"The solution should allow for easier configurations."
"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."
"The scalability could be better."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"I want it to be an active-active array. Nimble would be great as an active-active array because then everything checks out. It would give a feeling of comfort."
"It was a bit 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 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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