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 GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"It has good stability for our company."
"Technical support is good."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"The program is very stable."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"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."
"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."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"The replay and IOPS work well."
"In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"We get storage access without the need for more human monitoring of those resources."
"I have found the convergence rate and deduplication the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the management of Nimble Storage, InfoSight. This is like a cloud. That's really a very nice feature. I think that's the only reason to buy Nimble Storage."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"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."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"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."
"I am not too impressed with XtremeIO because we had a major failure."
"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."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"We've encountered challenges in integrating other products with Dell Xtremio, as it tends to be more vendor-locked. This means we can't easily explore other solutions that might work alongside Dell."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"We have had some stability issues with one array which has happened twice during subsequent software updates but is due to a bad Postgres database."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"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 scalability could be better."
"I'd like to see more granular quality of service rules. Currently, I think currently there's not much room for maximum IOPS, but there's not an option for minimum IOPS for a given volume."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
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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