We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"Nimble's support is awesome and one of the best. You sort of get a Tier 3 plus guy every time that you call, no matter if it is a Tier 0 issue. This is super helpful in case we ever have problems."
"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."
"InfoSight has identified controller failures or performance issues."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"Nimble's phone-home capability is decent. The compression, dedupe, and caching are also solid. Generally, I like the simplicity. It's almost a set-and-forget solution."
"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."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"One of the best features of the VNX is the ability to combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool. By combining small but fast flash drives, SAS drives, and high-capacity but slower NL-SAS drives, the VNX can intelligently move data to the different tiers of storage based on usage."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"From my point of view, the configuration that I can sell is restricted to the EMC best practices. It is hard to make a mistake in a solution. It means the configuration has good performance and scalability options."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"Integration with VMware"
"The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"It needs to improve its price."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"I'd like to see more granular quality of service rules. Currently, I think currently there's not much room for maximum IOPS, but there's not an option for minimum IOPS for a given volume."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"The amount of firmware updates released seem excessive."
"Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"There is an easy replication process between distinct data centers via VPLEX and/or RPA. But I hope in the future that EMC/Dell could replicate this with other types of storage."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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