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Dell EMC Unity
Dell EMC Unity is a hybrid solution. That is, it is indicated for environments that do not need specific and customized solutions. For general use, it guarantees an excellent performance, with the possibility of delivering 60TB NAS to end-users. However, if the environment is critical, there are solutions, from Dell itself, that are more appropriate. For example, do not try to use it as database storage, it will not have acceptable performance.
Coordenador de Infraestrutura, Redes e Telecomunicações
Câmara Municipal de CampinasGovernment Administration, 501-1000 employees
HPE Nimble Storage
HPE Nimble is well suited for any situation where a company wants a stand along or synced across the WAN San solution without needing to invest in too much training for the admins. Since they sell both partly SSD based cache devices as well as all SSD devices, they have the best of both worlds whether you need consistently fast storage with some front end cache or high-level box that is always serving up fast. As in our case, it is also well suited as a back end iScsi based box for cluster scenarios. If a company is just looking for Standard hard drive storage then Nimble is overkill.

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Manager in Information Technology
Construction Company, 51-200 employeesFeature Rating Comparison
Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Dell EMC Unity
7.9
HPE Nimble Storage
9.0
Flash Array Performance
Dell EMC Unity
8.1
HPE Nimble Storage
9.6
Flash Array Integration
Dell EMC Unity
8.8
HPE Nimble Storage
8.7
Data Compression
Dell EMC Unity
5.7
HPE Nimble Storage
9.0
Non-Intrusive Upgrades
Dell EMC Unity
8.2
HPE Nimble Storage
9.6
Simplicity
Dell EMC Unity
9.0
HPE Nimble Storage
9.6
Power Savings
Dell EMC Unity
7.8
HPE Nimble Storage
7.4
Pros
Dell EMC Unity
- Dell EMC Unity once stood up is reliable and performs to expectations.
- Dell EMC Unity has improved on the end user management experience over their older product suites
Associate Engineer
Secure Meters LimitedUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
HPE Nimble Storage
- Nimble provides top notch predictive flash caching that "just works". We typically see 95% + cache hits daily.
- World class support... You typically don't' call Nimble support when there are problems, they call you.
- The Nimble hybrid array is a cost effective solution with no compromises.
- Infosight, the cloud management dashboard, is easy to use and provides quick access to useful information.
- Our Nimble has had 100% uptime, 4 years and counting.

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Manager in Information Technology
Plastics Company, 51-200 employeesCons
Dell EMC Unity
- Alerting: receiving an alert when an issue occurs. That is good to know. However, if the alert is cleared, or somehow no longer in alarm, no email is received. At times I will receive the email alert on weekends, not knowing if the issue is resolved or not until Monday when I can access the unit. I have learned in most instances, the alert is a false alarm, which could be a problem.
- The alerting itself is sometimes not clear. For example, it tells me the link is down, we reset the connection, the link is still down, a tech was dispatched, he troubleshot, and finally the alarm cleared. This incident took almost a week. It went back into alarm after he left, then suddenly it cleared on its own.

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Professional in Information Technology
Packaging and Containers Company, 1001-5000 employeesHPE Nimble Storage
- I'd like the GUI to include more information for some of the features such as replication data totals each night. You have to go to the command line for this.
- It would be nice to have a feature built into the GUI that would show you the command line equivalent to get the same results you are seeing in the GUI.
- Although the intial setup was easy, they could always improve on that portion. During my setup, I did have to do a lot of back and forth with research on their site as to what each setting was that I was setting up. They could have provided some sort of description for each field within the setup that would have made it easier to know what they were having us set up.
IT Security and Network Manager
DuTrac Community Credit UnionFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Dell EMC Unity
No score
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HPE Nimble Storage
HPE Nimble Storage 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Nimble is doing its job well and any issues that do come up cause the Nimble support team to alert us before we would potentially see an impact to our production environment. I do wish we could expand into the unused space in the CS210 shelf which is limited by what I assume is a marketing/sales strategy, but we will likely add shelves moving forward.
IT Systems Engineer
TranswestTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
Usability
Dell EMC Unity
Dell EMC Unity 6.7
Based on 2 answers
Very cumbersome compared to other vendors in the same marketplace.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employeesHPE Nimble Storage
No score
No answers yet
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Support Rating
Dell EMC Unity
Dell EMC Unity 8.8
Based on 8 answers
Support for Dell EMC Unity is great. Only the upgrade support takes a bit longer. If the upgrading support were to be faster it would be 10 out of 10.

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Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesHPE Nimble Storage
HPE Nimble Storage 9.2
Based on 7 answers
Any time I have had to contact support, they have always been quick to respond, and very efficient in resolving any issues. When an action has been required on our side for a fix, they have been very helpful in explaining step by step what was required, and when replacement parts have been needed, we've had them within 24 hours.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Aviation & Aerospace Company, 501-1000 employeesAlternatives Considered
Dell EMC Unity
Unity is the successor to the EMC VNX but has a much simpler and more user-friendly interface. It is also much more easy to manage and integrate with VMware.
Systems Administrator, Core Infrastructure & Microsoft Systems
Cancer Research UKNon-Profit Organization Management, 1001-5000 employees
HPE Nimble Storage
Comparing Nimble Storage to the top three players EMC, NETAPP, and HP was hard to do. Everyone had their own special perks. Those companies have been around a lot longer. Three years ago when we made our purchase with Nimble, the company was only 3 years old. We were skeptical about the future. As we learned more about Nimble Storage we found out the creator/owner moved from NetApp. He developed code and a new way of thinking for SAN infrastructure to use compression. We found it useful that the company wasn't fresh out of the water, but enhancing. When it came down to price it stacks up about the same as the top three players. You do get more storage for your money. You get compression which can save 5%-20% depending on the data you have. It works great and doesn't have any kind of performance impact. You also get a smaller foot print. I know to get some of the performance and features from HP you have to have two or three arrays. That is at least 12U. One Nimble array is 4U.

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Administrator in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employeesReturn on Investment
Dell EMC Unity
- Less business downtime and reliability is a major business concern. DELL EMC UNITY addresses this concern well and provides robust storage.
- Investing in UNITY system is less expensive than all-flash storage systems.
- Managing and provisioning VMware disks became simpler from a single interface in the Vcenter
IT Project Manager
The George Washington UniversityHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees
HPE Nimble Storage
- People walked by my office for the first time ever asking what did we do to the servers because they are much faster. I have never experienced that before when putting in a new piece of equipment.
- It has paid for itself in space savings of not having to increase the size of the array.
- Speed and performance and data migration times are all parts of my ROI. Its been a great ride so far.

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Manager in Information Technology
Defense & Space Company, 201-500 employeesPricing Details
Dell EMC Unity
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
HPE Nimble Storage
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No