We performed a comparison between Dell Powerstore 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 of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, HPE Nimble Storage seems to be the marginally superior solution. Our reviewers found Dell Powerstore’s lack of a data replication tool to be an area where it can be improved.
"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"
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"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 predictive performance analytics are good."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"A particularly valuable feature is its simplicity."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"The support is very good."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is very easy to use. Access is very friendly. It shows you a lot of important information at the first glance. It has been very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are its cost-effectiveness, performance, and its deduplication deficiencies."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"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 solution is quite scalable."
"The solution's uptime is fantastic. It's 100 percent. In addition, Nimble's storage capacity efficiency is very effective."
"They could probably improve an organization with just about anything. It is all a matter of ease of use, ease of the implementation, etc."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"Performance, reliability, InfoSight, the ability to upgrade the O/S on the SAN without taking it down, and cost."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"The upgrades themselves are running fine, but after the upgrade is when we have a problem. With the update to 1.4, we had a head crash. They told us, 'This is a known issue. Please upgrade to 2.' We upgraded to 2 and, one week later they told us, 'Yeah, there are some issues in 2.0.0. You can lose data. Please upgrade to 2.0.1.' Overall, they need to make the system stable."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"The storage could be improved. I would like a feature for how to best secure an appliance and the storage since we are connecting the container to the public cloud. I would like them to develop another level of security, making it more secure than from what they have now."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"It needs more mature code."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"The stability can be improved."
"The scalability could be better."
"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 only thing I'm really looking for in my next array is some hyperconverged, so if they had something in that space... But I know they have SimpliVity so that is probably not going to happen."
"I want to see the full integration with OneView. I know they have started it, but I haven't had a chance to look at and evaluate it."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN, IBM FlashSystem and NetApp AFF. See our Dell PowerStore vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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