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 just very easy for general block storage."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"We like the performance."
"The solution runs pretty fast."
"We get storage access without the need for more human monitoring of those resources."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution's uptime is fantastic. It's 100 percent. In addition, Nimble's storage capacity efficiency is very effective."
"Their tech support is very professional, know their products, know what they do, and they are very informative in terms of keeping the customer updated."
"In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"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 most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access."
"Integration with VMware"
"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."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"The file functionality could be better."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"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."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"More reporting is probably the only thing that is really lacking. It would be helpful to go to the business and say, "This is how we've evolved with our solution, and this is why we need more." Being able to put forward a business case with data to back it up, essentially."
"There should be faster interfaces."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"I want it to be an active-active array. Nimble would be great as an active-active array because then everything checks out. It would give a feeling of comfort."
"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."
"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."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones."
"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 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."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 15 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 "A tool that offers protection against ransomware and other enterprise-level attacks". On the other hand, HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and NetApp AFF, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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