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."The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"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."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"The most valuable features are the with back-end dedupe, and the thin nodes. For a 20TB or 60TB, we're using almost a one-to-two ratio."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the no-forklift upgrade. While the thing is running, I can change out the controllers one at a time and keep the customer up and running. I can add shelves and storage and SSD drives or spinning drives to the system, while it's running. I can bring all that in and rebalance the load across the new disks or, if we take disks away, rebalance the load across what's remaining, and it just works."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"The performance benefits weren't surprising, we expected that. What we didn't expect were the densification benefits that we got out of going all-flash. We're able to put more applications on the arrays because of how all-flash performs. The way some of the application profiles have responded to all-flash has been really pleasing."
"Technical support is very good. I do use it from time to time and it's always excellent."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"Nimble's phone-home capability is decent. The compression, dedupe, and caching are also solid. Generally, I like the simplicity. It's almost a set-and-forget solution."
"This product is very easy to set up."
"It's very stable and fast, and I am very happy with the deduplication. It saves a lot of space, which is great."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"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."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"While the price is competitive, in the next release it would be better if they could reduce the fees."
"The connection should be better integrated with the network to offer a better view of the system."
"What I understand is that this is a 13 year old architecture, so it has lived its life and they're phasing it out. Honestly, we were initially struggling with the integration with VMware (but it was fixed with the VMware 6.5) and, then, it was around a 10GB network. At that time, it had the longevity to go to 100GB as well. It got us thinking about, when we go into the containerized architecture, what do we need to do to fix the infrastructure?"
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"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."
"Compellent comes in the form of a component that's not true of a unified storage platform."
"Licensing, especially on the storage line, could use some simplification. It's not terrible, but, for example, with the Isilon series, they've gone to completely a la carte. A la carte is very difficult to traverse, as to what you need. It would be more beneficial, at least from my point of view as a customer, if they did it more like car companies do, where there are package lines"
"The only thing that I can really compare Nimble to is all-flash because, right now, Nimble is a hybrid solution. I would like to see them come out with an all-flash alternative."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
"Pure Storages have some option, which allows us the ability to directly download that host inventory and volume report. We can receive everything directly generated from the storage itself. We do not need to use some other web browser or something. If HPE Nimble Storage could do the same it would be a benefit."
"I want it to be an active-active array. Nimble would be great as an active-active array because then everything checks out. It would give a feeling of comfort."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
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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