We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and IBM FlashSystem based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both solutions received high marks from reviewers. IBM has an edge in this comparison due to the feedback it received for its speed and innovation.
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"It's actually very stable"
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"Nimble Storage is a great storage solution which will give you a lot insight on the growth of your storage."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"The most valuable feature is InfoSight, and the ability that InfoSight gives you, from insight within your environment to what is going on at the storage layer."
"The tool’s support is feasible."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"The capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"The price-performance ratio is most valuable."
"The all-flash storage has tier replication capabilities."
"The power systems are very reliable if you are running 24/7 operations. For ongoing mission-critical applications, it's the best solution."
"The storage system is one of the best in the world."
"This solution is very stable."
"It is simple to make an update."
"The Flash core models offer amazing performance."
"One of the most valuable features is that it's very easy to use and configure. It used to be more difficult, but now it's almost flawless."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"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."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"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."
"When sizing the array based on requirements the option to add more network cards for throughput would be something to help clients."
"We have had some stability issues with one array which has happened twice during subsequent software updates but is due to a bad Postgres database."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"They keep talking about doing one-to-many replication. This is what we'd like to see, just to help with data replication."
"Its pricing could be better. It's expensive."
"GUI interface should be enhanced more as there is some issues in copy services."
"IBM should improve its data reduction development."
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"Enterprise data storage needs improvement. They should create a feature for data and file storage."
"If you want to expand, you cannot expand the disc enclosure. You have to buy a total individual node. Sometimes, this is difficult because we are just looking for capacity and not a node."
"A big area for improvement is that the data reduction pool feature is not recommended for use in a production environment because it has stability and performance issues."
"The array level RAID does not seem available."
"The installation is not easy. You need to have extensive knowledge to handle it."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and NetApp AFF, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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