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."It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"We use a platform as a service and have multiple application vendors who comprise that platform. There are moments when those application vendors put the blame on us. By working in InfoSight, I am able to say, "No, it is not us." I can actually provide proof, either by using screenshots or through reporting."
"The setup was very, very simple. When we got our AF5000, no kidding, we had it up in production within two hours"
"We have found the advantage of it is the easy, rapid setup, but also that it is very easy to manage."
"The fact that they offer free training is awesome. There are not very many vendors that do that."
"The most valuable feature is the management of Nimble Storage, InfoSight. This is like a cloud. That's really a very nice feature. I think that's the only reason to buy Nimble Storage."
"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."
"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 replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"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."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"I wish they would put the InfoSight page back the way it was. I got in it for the first time about two years ago, and it looked the same for about a year and a half. Then, about six months ago, it changed. There are different options now. I can still get to where I need to go, but it feels like it takes longer, where before it didn't. Also, I felt like I had a lot more options before. I have to do a lot more to digging now to get to where I need to go. I just wish they had their old page back."
"The amount of firmware updates released seem excessive."
"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 most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"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."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"Its pricing could be better. It's expensive."
"The solution could reduce its price."
"Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing."
"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."
"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 CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"VNX can improve by offering flexible upgrade options. It's not possible to add a single HDD to a current array and there are fixed rules to make upgrades."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 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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