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 stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"It simplifies storage."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"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."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"Snapshots are valuable because of their seamless nature, as well as the minimal space each snapshot takes."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"It was very easy and straightforward to setup."
"XtremIO is very stable."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"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 scalability is straightforward."
"It has totally taken away a layer of time and effort, management-wise, from two engineers to give that time back into developing more solutions. It has provided us essentially with a platform to go away and be more creative, knowing that that is stable and can do whatever we chuck at it."
"I have found the convergence rate and deduplication the most valuable features."
"Even through upgrades, there is no downtime, not even a hiccup for users."
"In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"We use a platform as a service and have multiple application vendors who comprise that platform. There are moments when those application vendors put the blame on us. By working in InfoSight, I am able to say, "No, it is not us." I can actually provide proof, either by using screenshots or through reporting."
"The fact that you can manage the requirements is one the most valuable features of HPE Nimble Storage. The other is the rapid deployment time."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"It was not proactive communication."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"In the next release, the solution could have better integration and if we can host assets on the cloud, such as NetApp has the NetApp volumes, which we can host on the cloud directly called NetApp CVO (cloud volume ONTAP). Dell EMC should come up with something purely on the cloud rather than manage services."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"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."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"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."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"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."
"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 solution that I have is a hybrid, not a full flash. The hybrid version could be improved."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"I would like to see more integrations."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
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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