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."The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"InfoSight is a valuable feature."
"They could probably improve an organization with just about anything. It is all a matter of ease of use, ease of the implementation, etc."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"Its speed, ease of use, and it has been completely reliable."
"The solution runs pretty fast."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"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."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"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."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"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."
"I'd like to see more granular quality of service rules. Currently, I think currently there's not much room for maximum IOPS, but there's not an option for minimum IOPS for a given volume."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"The amount of firmware updates released seem excessive."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"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 quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
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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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