We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Tintri VMstore 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."We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The deployment is fast."
"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 solution's predictive analytics is good. It helps to save costs."
"InfoSight has allowed us to centralize our management, understanding how it correlates to the array. It has identified a network issue in the network configuration of ESXi hosts. It enables us to get servers back up faster by 25 percent."
"The most valuable features are the duplication and compression traffic. We have second storage that we can use for the synchronization of data between the data centers."
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"Nimble Storage is a great storage solution which will give you a lot insight on the growth of your storage."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"Support from our vendor and Tintri are brilliant. They have always answered all of our questions promptly."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"We love the real-time replication, ease of use when connecting our servers to the storage, and the level of redundancy inside the box... It's also simple software and integrates well with VMware so we get a lot of information about all of the VMs, how they're performing individually, and about network latency. That's very helpful when you're troubleshooting a slowdown."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"I don't think it is officially released yet, but the main reason that we chose Nimble is because of the sync rep feature. So, I would like to see that further evolve. This feature will be essential for our setups."
"Nimble requires its DNS to work in order to interface with VMware vCenter is a little thorn in my eye, but I am being nitpicky here."
"HPE Nimble Storage should improve its latency. 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."
"There are customers who want to do some different things with the Microsoft Resilient File System. There are some customers who want to do different types of connectivity. I do not know if I would call that an improvement, necessarily, because if you want that, you should get a different product."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"I’d like to see in-line deduplication extended to Nimble non-flash (called “Hybrid”) arrays, even if it’s only the C500 and higher controllers that support it."
"Their current replication is really just enough to "check the box" that they do replication. We'll probably implement Actifio, Zerto or EMC RecoverPoint for VMs for more critical data replication."
"Technical support is an area where we had several issues, and it was hard to get some support in a specific case we had. I'm not very satisfied with them."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"Their support staff just doesn't have the experience with all of the products that we're running. They don't know the 850 series like we do because it's five years old. There is a little bit of a gap, and that may just be because we're an old customer running on platforms that their staff hasn't seen. I would like to see an improvement in their in-depth knowledge of their older products."
"Tintri's Cloud Connector currently only goes to AWS and IBM Cloud, and we don't use either because we're Microsoft Silver Partners. It would be great to get the Cloud Connector feature with Azure. If it's not already on Tintri's roadmap, that's something I'd like to see."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"The solution is already good but the brand name is not so popular here."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tintri VMstore writes "We were able to push a button—it really is that simple—and flip primary and secondary storage locations". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF, DDN IntelliFlash and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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