We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series 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."Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"One of the most valuable features is the capability to switch between all-flash to hybrid, which have have actually done for one of our arrays. We started with the hybrid, with the limited if I'm not mistaken, and then over a period of time, we swapped all the hybrids with the SSDs. This was one of the big features because it gave us the capability to not stick with just one kind of media. Secondly, since it has sorted clustering, we were able to bring in the newer boxes and have it all clustered together. These were the two main features that we really looked into, which benefited our use case from an expansion/growth perspective. Another valuable feature is the ease of management."
"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"The most valuable feature is the speed for the end-user."
"The solution is stable."
"We see very low latency with very high IOPS for mixed workloads."
"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."
"The interface is easy to use which makes the product user-friendly."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"The solution's predictive analytics is good. It helps to save costs."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"The tool’s support is feasible."
"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."
"The fact that they offer free training is awesome. There are not very many vendors that do that."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"InfoSight has allowed us to centralize our management, understanding how it correlates to the array. It has identified a network issue in the network configuration of ESXi hosts. It enables us to get servers back up faster by 25 percent."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"Automation could be simplified."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"The SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage."
"While there's always room for improvement in everything, I can't really think of a specific feature of the solution that requires immediate attention."
"We have seen some degraded throughput with mixed workloads. We have been working with Dell EMC to correct some of these latency issues."
"In terms of additional features, I would like to see some kind of I/O meter, to indicate what we are using in terms of performance. I would like to see automation with that, where it would give me the trends. I want to know those things easily, to help me know where issues are going to occur."
"I would like to see higher compression, dedupe, faster I/O, and bigger drives."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"The lower model, the 3000, should have duplication. It doesn't right now. It's only from 5000 that this is offered, but it depends on the performance. It could be they don't offer it on lower models because the duplication is too much of a burden to the performance."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"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."
"I would like to have more administrative rights, for example, root-level administrative rights to the underlying OS of the storage array. We want more access to the kind of underlying infrastructure of the storage array rather than relying on support. However, most companies are looking to have more managed solutions which is the opposite direction of what I want."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and NetApp AFF, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell SC Series vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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