We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, HPE Nimble Storage came out ahead of Pure Storage FlashArray. Although the two products have a similar ease of deployment, pricing, and quality of service and support, Pure Storage FlashArray requires more improvements in its capacities and features.
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"We have found the advantage of it is the easy, rapid setup, but also that it is very easy to manage."
"Our upgrades are seamless. Whether we're adding storage, or upgrading the software, we don't take an outage for those upgrades."
"We get storage access without the need for more human monitoring of those resources."
"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."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"Some of the beneficial features I have found are the Block-level backups, the interface is easy to use, backups work well and the portal is functional."
"Deduplication and compression."
"The setup was very, very simple. When we got our AF5000, no kidding, we had it up in production within two hours"
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"The software layer has to improve."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"The solution should allow for easier configurations."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
"Nimble Storage could increase its flexibility by adding more protocol options. Nimble mainly uses fibre channel protocols, whereas many other storage arrays support fibre channel, iCSI, and NFS protocols."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"The price could be better."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"The price should be lower."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera and VMware vSAN, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem, VMware vSAN and Dell Unity XT. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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