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 deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"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."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"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."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"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."
"InfoSight has identified controller failures or performance issues."
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"It's very stable and fast, and I am very happy with the deduplication. It saves a lot of space, which is great."
"InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far."
"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."
"InfoSight. It's AI for the data center. It's very easy, it does a lot of the work for the customer... InfoSight and the whole system, help them to deal with troubleshooting."
"HPE Nimble Storage is very stable and performs well."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"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."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see native network attached storage (NAS) functionality. Our customers are looking for NAS, and Nimble can't give it to them."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"I would like deduplication by default on all the volumes. I still don't understand (or know why) dedupe isn't enabled for the templates out-of-the-box. We have to go in and manually enable it each and every time."
"You could argue that it would be preferable if everything were cheaper in order to save taxpayer money."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
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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 119 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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