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 first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"The program is very stable."
"We mostly use it for backup, because we cannot measure anything, and we are afraid to use it for surveillance systems. We were planning to use it for mostly for surveillance systems."
"Thin storage allocation"
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"It dynamically understands what data is being stored on it and where to store it, because they have got a flash array at the front, then obviously the standard style of storage at the back."
"The stability is awesome. The product has always been reliable. It has been 100 percent up. We have never had any downtime with it. Even if a controller fails due to our firmware or whatever, it rolls over to the second one and keeps us running."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"Not only is it high performing, but it is also more compact and fits better in our storage arrays than equipment from other storage providers."
"The performance and the processor are good."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"Sometimes we don't get an immediate response from the support team. The initial POC also took a lot of resources."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"The way the market is going, supporting NVMe storage would be useful as a step up."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"You could argue that it would be preferable if everything were cheaper in order to save taxpayer money."
"I would like deduplication by default on all the volumes. I still don't understand (or know why) dedupe isn't enabled for the templates out-of-the-box. We have to go in and manually enable it each and every time."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"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."
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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