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.
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"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."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"The most valuable features include snapshots, Thin Clones, and deduplication and compression."
"The solution allows for easy, useful replication with good features for VPLEX and VIVO."
"It is scalable, and we usually recommend Dell Unity XT to small and medium companies."
"The inline deduplication and data reduction capabilities have been the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the fast cache with functionality rewrite."
"Dell Unity XT is user-friendly and easy to use."
"We've never had an issue with storage."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"The solution is scalable."
"The capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"InfoSight is helpful because it is proactive support."
"HPE Nimble Storage uses the InfoSight platform and it is useful because we can identify the faults and can analyze the performance. It has many other features. This feature is the best that I have observed from HPE Nimble Storage."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"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."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"It was not proactive communication."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"It isn't easy to find trusted partners for the product. The solution has issues with mid-level storage and does not come with enterprise storage."
"It is expensive, and the pricing could be better."
"There is no de-duplication. Unity used to be Bionics, which had de-duplication; however, in Dell Unity XT, the de-duplication was deprecated and is no longer available."
"The pricing is a bit high. We'd like it to come down."
"The reporting should be better. In other systems, you can create many different kinds of reports but this is not the case with Dell."
"Dell Unity XT could improve the compatibility of some of the features. Some of my customers had some problems. Additionally, it would be beneficial for the solution to have advanced AI and ML features."
"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."
"Dell could improve Unity XT by adding support for NVMe."
"HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"A feature that would be a nice addition to the next release would be a filer option. A filer option so that you could connect the sim or NFS or chips like NetApp does for NAS functionality."
"When sizing the array based on requirements the option to add more network cards for throughput would be something to help clients."
"We are doing a hybrid and are moving some machines to Microsoft Azure to run in hybrid mode. We are checking the availability of extra software-defined storage so that we can configure it."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 43 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 23 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.2, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Price / Quality ratio is good and since OE 5.03 code the array family reached a rather good maturity level". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Proactive end-to-end management". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, IBM FlashSystem and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell Unity XT vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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