We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The latency is good."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"Deduplication and compression."
"InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far."
"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 InfoSight, and the ability that InfoSight gives you, from insight within your environment to what is going on at the storage layer."
"Our upgrades are seamless. Whether we're adding storage, or upgrading the software, we don't take an outage for those upgrades."
"We have found the advantage of it is the easy, rapid setup, but also that it is very easy to manage."
"It dynamically understands what data is being stored on it and where to store it, because they have got a flash array at the front, then obviously the standard style of storage at the back."
"The most valuable features are its cost-effectiveness, performance, and its deduplication deficiencies."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."
"The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"The replication and mirroring features are very good."
"We need better data deduplication."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"The software layer has to improve."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"The solution should allow for easier configurations."
"HPE Nimble Storage should improve its latency. It is expensive."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"We are doing a hybrid and are moving some machines to Microsoft Azure to run in hybrid mode. We are checking the availability of extra software-defined storage so that we can configure it."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"The management interface, while very reliable, it seems a little old now and could maybe use a little modernization."
"Better integration with other brands is important so we would like to see it easier to integrate."
"I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T"
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
"As far as the manageability, being able to port between the two and have to do less training in-house from a customer point of view, that would be the part to improve."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
"NetApp could improve the speed of the rebuilding rate."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera and VMware vSAN, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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