We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and VMware vSAN 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 system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"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."
"The latency is good."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"InfoSight has identified controller failures or performance issues."
"It's very easy to set up. It's very stable, and it has got great deduplication, especially for hypervisor users."
"The setup was very, very simple. When we got our AF5000, no kidding, we had it up in production within two hours"
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"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 deduplication and compression capabilities are powerful."
"The most valuable feature is InfoSight, and the ability that InfoSight gives you, from insight within your environment to what is going on at the storage layer."
"Performance, reliability, InfoSight, the ability to upgrade the O/S on the SAN without taking it down, and cost."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the total hyperconverged facility."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"The solutions best feature is that it is easy to use."
"It's stable and scalable. Also, you can virtualize SAN so that you don't have to have a separate storage area network and can have your computer and storage on the same box or computer."
"The most valuable feature is fhe flexibility, the ability to move the machines around without hesitation."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"The product's initial setup phase was very straightforward."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"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."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"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."
"We have had some stability issues with one array which has happened twice during subsequent software updates but is due to a bad Postgres database."
"We face challenges with hardware delivery."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"I would like to see more integrations."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"The solution that I have is a hybrid, not a full flash. The hybrid version could be improved."
"The solution could reduce its price."
"There's a lot that can be done to segregate. That may be available now in vSAN 7, I suppose, however, the deduplication and compression can be segregated."
"Enterprise customers get discounts on the solution's licensing pricing, but it is too expensive for SMB customers."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"In a future release, they can bring in the object storage capabilities to this solution. Currently, there is not any compatibility."
"It can be very expensive."
"VMware vSAN needs to improve its features because other solutions have more advanced features."
"This product is very expensive."
"We want see a better monitoring tool in vSAN. Monitoring is not that great as of now because it shows us false alarms in the Health status. We would like that to be improved."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera and IBM FlashSystem, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorMagic SvSAN.
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