We performed a comparison between Dell Powerstore and HPE Nimble Storage based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, HPE Nimble Storage seems to be the marginally superior solution. Our reviewers found Dell Powerstore’s lack of a data replication tool to be an area where it can be improved.
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"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."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"It's actually very stable"
"The solution is stable."
"The compression is excellent."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"It is a stable solution."
"Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued."
"Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use."
"The solution's technical support is excellent. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"Their tech support is very professional, know their products, know what they do, and they are very informative in terms of keeping the customer updated."
"This product is very easy to set up."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"The quality of the service and management tools let us make contractual guarantees for storage performance for customers. That's something we couldn't do before."
"Nimble Storage is a great storage solution which will give you a lot insight on the growth of your storage."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"Reporting is an area that could be improved. It's very simplistic sometimes, and some of the very technical guys on my team want to see more of the details and be able to massage the report a little bit better."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"The only area I can highlight for improvement is that the 4:1 data reduction target has not been reached. This may be due to an issue with Dell EMC's initial analysis of data compression. As a result, we have had to add new physical disks to reach our goal of total available disk space."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"I would like to see a Snapshot feature. Currently, it is unable to occupy the capacity."
"It needs more mature code."
"The customer service and support are bad."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"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."
"Nimble requires its DNS to work in order to interface with VMware vCenter is a little thorn in my eye, but I am being nitpicky here."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
"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."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN, IBM FlashSystem and NetApp AFF. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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