We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and VAST Data 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."It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"The technical support is very good."
"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."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"I have added expansion shelves on several of them. It is simple to do. You plug it in, you attach two cables, then you press one button, like "Add", and that is all you have to do."
"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."
"The solution's uptime is fantastic. It's 100 percent. In addition, Nimble's storage capacity efficiency is very effective."
"The fact that they offer free training is awesome. There are not very many vendors that do that."
"We have found the advantage of it is the easy, rapid setup, but also that it is very easy to manage."
"Our virtual admins are able to take control of Nimble and know how to allocate the storage, whenever it is required, thus reducing time."
"In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"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."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"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."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"I would like to see more integrations."
"We face challenges with hardware delivery."
"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."
"I would like deduplication by default on all the volumes. I still don't understand (or know why) dedupe isn't enabled for the templates out-of-the-box. We have to go in and manually enable it each and every time."
"They keep talking about doing one-to-many replication. This is what we'd like to see, just to help with data replication."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 18th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and Pure FlashArray X NVMe, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Qumulo, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Dell PowerStore.
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