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.
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"It helps to simplify storage. For most of our customers, when they move to Pure Storage, storage becomes an afterthought."
"Technical support is good."
"It has a very intuitive web console that runs in HTML5 and makes navigation and administration fairly easy."
"Integration; We use the product with VMware, and also use it with Syft for home directory and departmental shares."
"Using this solution has meant that I do not need to look for different partners to provide me with solutions like a backup service. Dell provides end to end solutions."
"A lot of the Unisphere interfaces are greatly improved in terms of monitoring capabilities, alerting, and ease of use. Setting up the storage and the file system are all just a few clicks away."
"The storage management is superb, with a user-friendly graphical interface and dashboards. The performance is good. The integration, dashboards, and analytics are excellent. It gives me immediate output and quick access to the reports I need promptly. It's an excellent product with high stability. The solution is scalable. The support team is highly supportive, responsive, and efficient in providing solutions. This product is highly useful and well-suited for all types of automation."
"It is scalable. We can add additional tools if we need to expand it."
"I like how it separates the iSCSI drives from the standard shares. It has two different routes to it. I know most of the other solutions do this, but I just like the way that Dell EMC does it."
"All-flash array eliminates all the overhead of tiering and a lot of the data structuring overhead involved."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"The scalability is straightforward."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"The solution is scalable."
"If a ransomware or enterprise-level attack happens, my infrastructure remains totally secure. If any virtual machine gets damaged or collapses, we have built a backup solution, which will take a minute to restore the same version of HPE Nimble Storage in our company."
"We get storage access without the need for more human monitoring of those resources."
"InfoSight is a valuable feature."
"InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"It needs to improve its price."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"We have only used this solution for less than one year so I don't have any improvements suggestions yet."
"It could go faster. Make it bigger, better, and faster at a lower price, and I am there."
"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."
"It's very frustrating that it's not backward-compatible with the previous platforms, so it's a struggle for a lot of our customers."
"Stability is the problem. We've had stability issues with it. We've had problems with the iSCSI interface. We've had it for two years now and for two years we've had problems where a service processor will drop, we'll lose connectivity to LUNs, we'll lose connectivity to the storage, issues like that. No matter how we've tried to chase it down, everybody just points fingers at each other. The only thing that changed in our environment was that the Unity solution was installed."
"This is a tier-three solution and it gives us what we need for archiving and backups."
"If there's anything Dell EMC could do to get the same performance for a cheaper price, that would be great."
"They should update to the cloud."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"The only thing I'm really looking for in my next array is some hyperconverged, so if they had something in that space... But I know they have SimpliVity so that is probably not going to happen."
"You could argue that it would be preferable if everything were cheaper in order to save taxpayer money."
"I would like to see native network attached storage (NAS) functionality. Our customers are looking for NAS, and Nimble can't give it to them."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"The solution that I have is a hybrid, not a full flash. The hybrid version could be improved."
"I’d like to see in-line deduplication extended to Nimble non-flash (called “Hybrid”) arrays, even if it’s only the C500 and higher controllers that support it."
"More reporting is probably the only thing that is really lacking. It would be helpful to go to the business and say, "This is how we've evolved with our solution, and this is why we need more." Being able to put forward a business case with data to back it up, essentially."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 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, IBM FlashSystem, HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN, IBM FlashSystem and NetApp AFF. See our Dell Unity XT vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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