We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The latency is good."
"The Pure1 component is most valuable at this point in time when comparing it with EMC. Pure1 is where you can have your diagnostics in the cloud, so you can look at things from your mobile phone."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"We're able to get higher-density workloads on the same infrastructure, and we have a smaller physical footprint. The performance is excellent – during our test the bottlenecks are never on the X array, it just keeps picking up the pace to match what you need. The real-time visibility is a differentiator in my opinion."
"It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"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."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"It has totally taken away a layer of time and effort, management-wise, from two engineers to give that time back into developing more solutions. It has provided us essentially with a platform to go away and be more creative, knowing that that is stable and can do whatever we chuck at it."
"Our virtual admins are able to take control of Nimble and know how to allocate the storage, whenever it is required, thus reducing time."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"The deployment is fast."
"The stability is awesome. The product has always been reliable. It has been 100 percent up. We have never had any downtime with it. Even if a controller fails due to our firmware or whatever, it rolls over to the second one and keeps us running."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"We use it for our VDI environment, and have not had any complaints with it."
"The replication and mirroring features are very good."
"The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another."
"We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications."
"The management software is very good."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"Every time I think of something that needs to improve, they're one step ahead, which I love. The only area I wish to see improve, I believe is coming, is in the FlashBlade product. Blade implementation fell short on a few of the services."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the dashboard and management could be simplified."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"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 integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"The solution should allow for easier configurations."
"They keep talking about doing one-to-many replication. This is what we'd like to see, just to help with data replication."
"Pure Storages have some option, which allows us the ability to directly download that host inventory and volume report. We can receive everything directly generated from the storage itself. We do not need to use some other web browser or something. If HPE Nimble Storage could do the same it would be a benefit."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"It was difficult to implement and lacks some additional features that would be useful, but as a solution fits a particular need for our organization."
"NetApp could improve the speed of the rebuilding rate."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"The only major drawback is the replication between EF-Series units."
"Their problems are on the software and the controlling of the storage where they lack segmentation and federation."
"It needs a better management tool."
"This solution has limited storage."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera and VMware vSAN, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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