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 initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"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."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"It simplifies storage."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"I really like the form factor, which is nice and compact and small."
"Deduplication and compression."
"They could probably improve an organization with just about anything. It is all a matter of ease of use, ease of the implementation, etc."
"It's given us more time to do the important things, less time worrying about SANs and failures and picking up the pieces. It just works."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"The interaction with VMware is most valuable."
"Good performance for VM environments"
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"The most valuable feature is the tight VMware integration, due to the migration from bare metal to virtualized environments and then on to the cloud."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"Integration with VMware"
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"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."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"The solution is not cheap."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
"There should be faster interfaces."
"Nimble Storage could increase its flexibility by adding more protocol options. Nimble mainly uses fibre channel protocols, whereas many other storage arrays support fibre channel, iCSI, and NFS protocols."
"The solution could reduce its price."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"When sizing the array based on requirements the option to add more network cards for throughput would be something to help clients."
"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."
"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."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"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."
"Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones."
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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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