We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT 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 Results: Dell EMC Unity XT has a slight edge in this comparison due to the higher marks it received for its scaling abilities.
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."
"Pure has signature security technology, which cannot be deleted, even if you are an administrator."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"It is easy to scale, maintain, and manage."
"My storage team likes Unity's replication features. Three-site replication is a unique feature that EMC offers us."
"It has the same operating system for both file and block, and it actually simplifies everything. And it's much smaller compared to VNX."
"The NAS capability is mainly what we're looking for from this product, and being able to recover fast in DR."
"It is nice the way ESRS works with remote support, being able to remote in and take a look at problems proactively."
"The performance is great. We have four or five different Unity arrays, and they have all run flawlessly."
"I like its performance and support."
"Dell Unity XT is user-friendly and easy to use."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"I have added expansion shelves on several of them. It is simple to do. You plug it in, you attach two cables, then you press one button, like "Add", and that is all you have to do."
"I have found the convergence rate and deduplication the most valuable features."
"Its speed, ease of use, and it has been completely reliable."
"The solution's predictive analytics is good. It helps to save costs."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"The software layer has to improve."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"I would like them to continue to build on the solution and expand on the functionality, like replication."
"On the data domains - for the Unity product, but specifically for data domain - I would like a much easier interface for managing, for actually going in and having one place where I could get all of the different parts of the overall unit. And I would also like to be able to identify individual disks a lot more easily."
"We went to the PowerMax because of the needs that we have for the business. We're doing true enterprise-level storage. So we went from Unity to PowerMax to give us that tier that we were looking for."
"It would be better if there were more integrations."
"This solution could be improved by offering containerization. This is something many of my customers are looking for."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately one hour. However, the full process was not as simple as IBM."
"One area of improvement is replication. We are also using Oracle virtual machines, and when you are using systems from other vendors, the process of replicating from Unity through OLVM is more laborious than when we were using VPLEX."
"This solution would be improved with the addition of flexible raid volumes."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"I want it to be an active-active array. Nimble would be great as an active-active array because then everything checks out. It would give a feeling of comfort."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 189 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell Unity XT vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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