We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and HPE Nimble Storage 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 does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It has totally taken away a layer of time and effort, management-wise, from two engineers to give that time back into developing more solutions. It has provided us essentially with a platform to go away and be more creative, knowing that that is stable and can do whatever we chuck at it."
"They could probably improve an organization with just about anything. It is all a matter of ease of use, ease of the implementation, etc."
"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."
"The deployment is fast."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"I would like to see more integrations."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"Its pricing could be better. It's expensive."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"Nimble requires its DNS to work in order to interface with VMware vCenter is a little thorn in my eye, but I am being nitpicky here."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem.
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