"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"The most valuable feature of Dell EMC XtremIO is the data protection (DP) group, it is one of the most advanced features in these types of arrays. The dedupe and compression that this array provides both do a superb job."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"The replay and IOPS work well."
"The solution runs pretty fast."
"Some of the beneficial features I have found are the Block-level backups, the interface is easy to use, backups work well and the portal is functional."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"The performance and the processor are good."
"The deduplication and compression capabilities are powerful."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"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."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"If you are looking at flash storage solutions, XtremIO doesn't offer any unique features. Most of my customers are migrating their workload from XtremIO to other formats because of this."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"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 should allow for easier configurations."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
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Dell EMC XtremIO is ranked 21st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 5 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 25 reviews. Dell EMC XtremIO is rated 7.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell EMC XtremIO writes "Useful data protection group, effective compression, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Proactive end-to-end management". Dell EMC XtremIO is most compared with Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe, Dell EMC SC Series, Pure Storage FlashArray and IBM FlashSystem, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell EMC Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell EMC PowerStore and NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS). See our Dell EMC XtremIO vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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