We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and IBM FlashSystem based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both solutions received high marks from reviewers. IBM has an edge in this comparison due to the feedback it received for its speed and innovation.
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"Support has been helpful."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The fact that you can manage the requirements is one the most valuable features of HPE Nimble Storage. The other is the rapid deployment time."
"Nimble's support is awesome and one of the best. You sort of get a Tier 3 plus guy every time that you call, no matter if it is a Tier 0 issue. This is super helpful in case we ever have problems."
"They could probably improve an organization with just about anything. It is all a matter of ease of use, ease of the implementation, etc."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"The solution is scalable."
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"Deduplication and compression."
"The valuable features for us are the extra add-ons, such as the FIM provisioning, the compression, the disaster recovery capabilities, and the storage pooling functions."
"The solution is very easy to configure and use."
"This solution is really user friendly. It also offers good performance and is highly reliable."
"This solution is very stable."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"The speed and the ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"IBM FlashSystem is a powerful effective storage solution. Additionally, it is user-friendly, anyone can use it."
"Virtualization of external storage, while adding cache and speed to the external storage."
"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."
"They could improve the price."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"Automation could be simplified."
"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."
"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."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"The amount of firmware updates released seem excessive."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"There should be faster interfaces."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"With regards to the IBM V7000 storage system, where we have multiple tiers of storage, a heat map would show I/O distribution across the tiers of storage."
"The security features can be improved such that the encryption does not affect performance in any way."
"This solution could be improved by offering greater amounts of storage."
"Product support is restricted to IBM only. It must be decentralized to IBM partners as well."
"I would like to see an improvement in the handling of large amounts of rights."
"We use some open-source tools for monitoring, such as Grafana and it should be bundled along with IBM FlashSystem."
"Enterprise data storage needs improvement. They should create a feature for data and file storage."
"The ease of installation should be improved. We had issues with the configuration model."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and NetApp AFF, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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