We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and SolidFire 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."This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"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."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. It is much easier to use, and we do not have to worry about the I/O profile of the workloads that we putting on the array."
"The management software that runs in the cloud is called InfoSight and it is very good. It is similar to machine learning software that monitors your hardware."
"The fact that you can manage the requirements is one the most valuable features of HPE Nimble Storage. The other is the rapid deployment time."
"InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"Any updates are just part of your subscription, so you don't have to buy add-ons for new features. You're continually adding value to it."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"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."
"The simplicity of it."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"SolidFire is one of the products that does have great APIs right out-of-the-box. It works great. The tools and the other stuff seem to work a little better right out-of-the-box than the ONTAP stuff does, C-Mode."
"I would say in terms of architecture and in terms of functionality, the product is quite good."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"They could improve the price."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"The solution could reduce its price."
"I'd also like to see them incorporate tools that let me get granular with the VMs. I want to see an individual VM, I want to Snapshot and recover an individual VM."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"I’d like to see in-line deduplication extended to Nimble non-flash (called “Hybrid”) arrays, even if it’s only the C500 and higher controllers that support it."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
"The scalability of HCI or SolidFire as such isn't a concern, but when you compare it to PowerMax or NetApp AFF series devices, scalability is a concern because it's only the drives that are connected to the nodes. We don't have any shelf connectivity."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"The upgrade process could be better."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while SolidFire 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. SolidFire report.
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