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 most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"Linear performance – The XtremIO wasn’t the fastest in all tests against other all flash arrays, but even with a massive workload, the response time and user experience were absolutely predictable with no sharp drop-offs."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"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%."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The program is very stable."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"InfoSight is a valuable feature."
"It's given us more time to do the important things, less time worrying about SANs and failures and picking up the pieces. It just works."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"We have seen our average latency go from four milliseconds to point four. Therefore, we are getting 10 times better performance down to the end user on everything. We have seen an increase in our IOPS by ten times."
"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."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"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."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"Right now, external appliances are needed to replicate XtremIO to XtremIO, or to another EMC system."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"I’d like to see in-line deduplication extended to Nimble non-flash (called “Hybrid”) arrays, even if it’s only the C500 and higher controllers that support it."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"The only thing I'm really looking for in my next array is some hyperconverged, so if they had something in that space... But I know they have SimpliVity so that is probably not going to happen."
"Nimble Storage could increase its flexibility by adding more protocol options. Nimble mainly uses fibre channel protocols, whereas many other storage arrays support fibre channel, iCSI, and NFS protocols."
"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."
"The large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks."
"I would like to see more integrations."
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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