We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"One of the best features is the support, which is excellent."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The latency is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"InfoSight has allowed us to centralize our management, understanding how it correlates to the array. It has identified a network issue in the network configuration of ESXi hosts. It enables us to get servers back up faster by 25 percent."
"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."
"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."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"The stability is awesome. The product has always been reliable. It has been 100 percent up. We have never had any downtime with it. Even if a controller fails due to our firmware or whatever, it rolls over to the second one and keeps us running."
"They have really thought through their solution. They've covered everything."
"It's easy to use, it's just like 3PAR. I made clusters of 32 hosts with 50 volumes and that took barely an hour. I scripted a lot of it, filled in the names of volumes, the names of servers."
"The replay and IOPS work well."
"All the features are working great."
"The most valuable features are productivity and data storage."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"The technical support is good. We are always thankful for the technical support from VMware. They are very supportive when we have a technical problem."
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"The deduplication and compression are excellent."
"The ease of use is great."
"I like that we could choose whatever hardware we wanted, rather than having to use one particular vendor."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"The software layer has to improve."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"The solution that I have is a hybrid, not a full flash. The hybrid version could be improved."
"The scalability could be better."
"HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"I'd also like to see them incorporate tools that let me get granular with the VMs. I want to see an individual VM, I want to Snapshot and recover an individual VM."
"They can package it in a way that is specific to the hardware infrastructure and the hardware platform. It should stay fairly up to date with the drivers and the manufacturer issues. The problem with uncoupling the proprietary technology and component capabilities is that by uncoupling them, you run into some concerns or challenges over the poor performance model. These concerns really come when you start talking about high performance, high bandwidth, and high availability types of environments. While vSAN is a leader, in a critical view, it is not about being cost-effective. It is more about the immediate impact of money loss to the business in critical applications where we want to maintain a continuous operational 59 model. It is, however, good for QA/QC tasks. I don't necessarily know how it works in regards to VDI or virtual desktop infrastructure."
"It could be more robust. The latency is also an issue for us, and the reliability. I would like it to be faster and a little more flexible."
"In a future release, they can bring in the object storage capabilities to this solution. Currently, there is not any compatibility."
"The price for the hard drive, for vSAN, is very expensive."
"The platform's cost affects the business. This particular area needs improvement."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"The pricing model is sometimes a challenge for us because their licenses are very costly."
"The stability needs to be improved."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera and IBM FlashSystem, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorMagic SvSAN.
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