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."The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"It simplifies storage."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"It's very stable and fast, and I am very happy with the deduplication. It saves a lot of space, which is great."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"It's very easy to set up. It's very stable, and it has got great deduplication, especially for hypervisor users."
"This product is very easy to set up."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"Our upgrades are seamless. Whether we're adding storage, or upgrading the software, we don't take an outage for those upgrades."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"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."
"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."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"One of the best features of the VNX is the ability to combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool. By combining small but fast flash drives, SAS drives, and high-capacity but slower NL-SAS drives, the VNX can intelligently move data to the different tiers of storage based on usage."
"Integration with VMware"
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"The file functionality could be better."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"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."
"The large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"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."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"The way the market is going, supporting NVMe storage would be useful as a step up."
"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."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"Poor connection to FC."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"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."
"VNX can improve by offering flexible upgrade options. It's not possible to add a single HDD to a current array and there are fixed rules to make upgrades."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 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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