We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe 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 most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"I have been highly satisfied with the resiliency and scalability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is its global cache, which allows for uncompromised performance."
"It significantly simplifies storage."
"We find the service level option to provision storage very valuable. The ability to define different service levels for storage groups helps us in prioritizing our workload at the infrastructure level."
"The most valuable feature is the performance and compression. The most useful tool is CloudIQ."
"The performance is very good. Our predominant workloads are all less than 5 milliseconds and it's most common to have a sub-1-millisecond response time for our applications. In terms of efficiency, we've turned on compression and we're able to get as high as two-to-one compression on our workloads, on average."
"They're basically tanks. You could take a baseball bat to the thing, and it's still going to keep running and doing what it's supposed to do. We've had a couple of part failures, and you can pretty much replace any part on that thing at any time during the day in the middle of production without worrying about anything happening."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup a nine out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"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."
"It's very stable and fast, and I am very happy with the deduplication. It saves a lot of space, which is great."
"It's very easy to set up. It's very stable, and it has got great deduplication, especially for hypervisor users."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"Performance, reliability, InfoSight, the ability to upgrade the O/S on the SAN without taking it down, and cost."
"Its speed, ease of use, and it has been completely reliable."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"When it comes to Oracle and database workloads, data reduction could be a little bit better. Some of the competition, like Pure, have post-processes which do additional deduplication and compression on the backside; everything is in-line and then they do a secondary process. It would be a good option if you could start getting 5:1 or 6:1 data reduction on database workloads."
"I would like to see more development in the cloud environment. It would be good if it comes in the cloud kind of setup."
"The initial setup was a little bit complicated."
"The price cap of Dell PowerMax NVMe is very high."
"Dell needs to offer more midrange storage options with enterprise-class features similar to the PowerMAX."
"The initial setup was complex, and we had experienced people working on it."
"Support of the product can be slow and an administrative challenge: planning, scheduling, and overseeing data center access for a Dell EMC rep. One improvement could be to enable a self-maintenance option. The requirements that we go through to get Dell EMC onsite to replace failed drives, power supplies, and other small redundant parts can be unnecessarily complex. If simplified, they could send us the parts, then we could replace them much faster, more easily, and truly within the SLA parameters."
"We are very interested in NVMe over Fibre Channel, which I understand is on the horizon. We would like to see that come to fruition."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
"It was a bit expensive."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"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’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"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 would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell VMAX All Flash, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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