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."FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Their tech support is very professional, know their products, know what they do, and they are very informative in terms of keeping the customer updated."
"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."
"It's very easy to set up. It's very stable, and it has got great deduplication, especially for hypervisor users."
"We like the performance."
"Our upgrades are seamless. Whether we're adding storage, or upgrading the software, we don't take an outage for those upgrades."
"The solution's uptime is fantastic. It's 100 percent. In addition, Nimble's storage capacity efficiency is very effective."
"The solution runs pretty fast."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"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."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"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."
"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."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"I would like to see more integrations."
"I would like to see the network portion of the product improve, especially with some of the things which are coming out from Aruba and HPE. Both are innovating more of an automated networking. I would like to see our Nimble meld into that and do some automated networking."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"We are doing a hybrid and are moving some machines to Microsoft Azure to run in hybrid mode. We are checking the availability of extra software-defined storage so that we can configure it."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
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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, Tintri VMstore T7000 and NetApp AFF, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem.
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