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 sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"VMware integration, why is pretty self-explanatory."
"This product is very easy to set up."
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"The solution's uptime is fantastic. It's 100 percent. In addition, Nimble's storage capacity efficiency is very effective."
"It dynamically understands what data is being stored on it and where to store it, because they have got a flash array at the front, then obviously the standard style of storage at the back."
"In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"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 benefits are better up-time, better response time."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features."
"We use it for our VDI environment, and have not had any complaints with it."
"This storage solution is both stable and scalable, and it works for our needs."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"I would like to see the network portion of the product improve, especially with some of the things which are coming out from Aruba and HPE. Both are innovating more of an automated networking. I would like to see our Nimble meld into that and do some automated networking."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"The stability can be improved."
"The only thing that I can really compare Nimble to is all-flash because, right now, Nimble is a hybrid solution. I would like to see them come out with an all-flash alternative."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"Nimble Storage could increase its flexibility by adding more protocol options. Nimble mainly uses fibre channel protocols, whereas many other storage arrays support fibre channel, iCSI, and NFS protocols."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
"This solution has limited storage."
"The management interface, while very reliable, it seems a little old now and could maybe use a little modernization."
"I would like to shrink it more, if we can. The smaller, the better."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
"Their problems are on the software and the controlling of the storage where they lack segmentation and federation."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 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, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, 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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