We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and VNX [EOL] 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 is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"Support has been helpful."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"The management software that runs in the cloud is called InfoSight and it is very good. It is similar to machine learning software that monitors your hardware."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"I have found the convergence rate and deduplication the most valuable features."
"HPE Nimble Storage is very stable and performs well."
"Deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"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 is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"From my point of view, the configuration that I can sell is restricted to the EMC best practices. It is hard to make a mistake in a solution. It means the configuration has good performance and scalability options."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"The most valuable feature is the tight VMware integration, due to the migration from bare metal to virtualized environments and then on to the cloud."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"Integration with VMware"
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"I would like a feature to integrate with external or cloud solutions. For example, if I want to use this storage for a backup from the cloud, I want to have integration with the cloud vendors, such as Microsoft, Oracles, or Amazon. It could be available as an API to allow seamless integration. Additionally, the solution could improve by having native integration with a cloud provider, such as VMware or Microsoft, this would reduce the need to use third-party solutions to complete the task."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"HPE Nimble Storage should improve its latency. It is expensive."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"The solution should allow for easier configurations."
"I would like to have more administrative rights, for example, root-level administrative rights to the underlying OS of the storage array. We want more access to the kind of underlying infrastructure of the storage array rather than relying on support. However, most companies are looking to have more managed solutions which is the opposite direction of what I want."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"There is an easy replication process between distinct data centers via VPLEX and/or RPA. But I hope in the future that EMC/Dell could replicate this with other types of storage."
"Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones."
"It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption."
"Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while VNX [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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