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.
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The solution is very reliable."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The high availability of Dell EMC Unity XT has been the most important feature."
"The most valuable features are its performance and simplicity."
"The most valuable feature of Dell Unity XT is its support of protocols for both block, and file levels. It has the features a store solution should have."
"The Unity XT box is very strong. It doesn't break. The MTBF time is very large so you don't have to worry about faults or outages in your operations."
"I have found Dell EMC Unity XT to be stable."
"I like Unity XT's software-defined storage. It's a new feature that isn't widely used yet, but customers are impressed with it."
"It is great because it can work as a SAN and net storage."
"It's very stable and fast, and I am very happy with the deduplication. It saves a lot of space, which is great."
"The most valuable features are the duplication and compression traffic. We have second storage that we can use for the synchronization of data between the data centers."
"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 most valuable feature is the management of Nimble Storage, InfoSight. This is like a cloud. That's really a very nice feature. I think that's the only reason to buy Nimble Storage."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"They have really thought through their solution. They've covered everything."
"It was not proactive communication."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"The file functionality could be better."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"The price could be better."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"It could be improved in the area of management flexibility. For example, I really need to set read-only access for LUNs, and there's no such option with Unity XT."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the deduplication part, because for large deduplications, you need an extra appliance to do it in order to avoid having problems in performance. I think that could be improved, because everything should be included in the product, not with an appliance from the outside."
"The price of Dell Unity XT could improve."
"It's an expensive solution, particularly for medium companies. One device costs about 30,000 euros. The support contract is quite expensive as well. We are currently looking for other lower-cost solutions."
"It is expensive, and the pricing could be better."
"It could go faster. Make it bigger, better, and faster at a lower price, and I am there."
"Scalability of this solution could be improved."
"They can certainly improve in terms of monitoring."
"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."
"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 stability can be improved."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"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."
"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."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 45 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 28 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 8.6. 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 (All Flash FAS), HPE 3PAR StoreServ, Dell PowerMax NVMe and IBM FlashSystem, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell Unity XT vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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