We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO 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 product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"XtremIO’s capability to run any workload without much in the way of design considerations makes this very easy to use and size."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"Thin storage allocation"
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"Any updates are just part of your subscription, so you don't have to buy add-ons for new features. You're continually adding value to it."
"InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far."
"Even through upgrades, there is no downtime, not even a hiccup for users."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's very stable and fast, and I am very happy with the deduplication. It saves a lot of space, which is great."
"The deduplication and compression capabilities are powerful."
"The quality of the service and management tools let us make contractual guarantees for storage performance for customers. That's something we couldn't do before."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The file functionality could be better."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"In some cases where we don’t need the flexibility of the virtualization layer, we could free up resources on the VPLEX by using the storage replication."
"Management and reporting need improvement."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"Dell's technical support could be better."
"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."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"It needs a way to determine the deduplication of each LUN and what the impact would be if we were to move data from one LUN to another."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"It was a bit expensive."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"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 that I have is a hybrid, not a full flash. The hybrid version could be improved."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell XtremIO vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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