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."The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"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 easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"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."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"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."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"Nimble's phone-home capability is decent. The compression, dedupe, and caching are also solid. Generally, I like the simplicity. It's almost a set-and-forget solution."
"The most valuable features are its cost-effectiveness, performance, and its deduplication deficiencies."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"Regarding their support, you always get through to somebody who knows exactly what they're talking about."
"We like the performance."
"InfoSight provides real-time reporting, it gives you information about your different volumes, how the arrays are being used, I/O, performance in general."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"It needs to improve its price."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"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."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"I would like deduplication by default on all the volumes. I still don't understand (or know why) dedupe isn't enabled for the templates out-of-the-box. We have to go in and manually enable it each and every time."
"The only thing that I can really compare Nimble to is all-flash because, right now, Nimble is a hybrid solution. I would like to see them come out with an all-flash alternative."
"Pure Storages have some option, which allows us the ability to directly download that host inventory and volume report. We can receive everything directly generated from the storage itself. We do not need to use some other web browser or something. If HPE Nimble Storage could do the same it would be a benefit."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
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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