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."They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The reliability is very good."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"Nimble Storage is a great storage solution which will give you a lot insight on the growth of your storage."
"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."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"Deduplication and compression."
"InfoSight has identified controller failures or performance issues."
"The tool’s support is feasible."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"The solution is not cheap."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"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."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"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."
"It was a bit expensive."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"When sizing the array based on requirements the option to add more network cards for throughput would be something to help clients."
"The dashboard can be improved."
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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 117 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, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem.
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