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."Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"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."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"Very good IOPS performance"
"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%."
"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."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"The management software that runs in the cloud is called InfoSight and it is very good. It is similar to machine learning software that monitors your hardware."
"Even through upgrades, there is no downtime, not even a hiccup for users."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"The interaction with VMware is most valuable."
"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."
"It was not proactive communication."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"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."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"It is very expensive to scale. You have to buy an additional system to extend from one disc, for instance. It is scalable, but extremely expensive to do so."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"I would like to see the network portion of the product improve, especially with some of the things which are coming out from Aruba and HPE. Both are innovating more of an automated networking. I would like to see our Nimble meld into that and do some automated networking."
"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 solution requires a higher availability."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"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."
"Its pricing could be better. It's expensive."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"A feature that would be a nice addition to the next release would be a filer option. A filer option so that you could connect the sim or NFS or chips like NetApp does for NAS 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 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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