We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"We have seen our average latency go from four milliseconds to point four. Therefore, we are getting 10 times better performance down to the end user on everything. We have seen an increase in our IOPS by ten times."
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"The interaction with VMware is most valuable."
"Deduplication and compression."
"In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable."
"Scalability is another reason we chose to go with Nimble: upgrading to another storage array. If we need higher capacity or throughput, we can just replace controllers, we don't have to replace or forklift-upgrade the whole chassis."
"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."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"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."
"Integration with VMware"
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"The price should be lower."
"Automation could be simplified."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"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."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"There are customers who want to do some different things with the Microsoft Resilient File System. There are some customers who want to do different types of connectivity. I do not know if I would call that an improvement, necessarily, because if you want that, you should get a different product."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"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."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"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."
"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."
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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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