We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and INFINIDAT InfiniBox 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."The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"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 most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"Performance, reliability, InfoSight, the ability to upgrade the O/S on the SAN without taking it down, and cost."
"The setup was very, very simple. When we got our AF5000, no kidding, we had it up in production within two hours"
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"Any updates are just part of your subscription, so you don't have to buy add-ons for new features. You're continually adding value to it."
"InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far."
"This product has good performance."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"The file functionality could be better."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"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."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"We have had some stability issues with one array which has happened twice during subsequent software updates but is due to a bad Postgres database."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"I would like to see native network attached storage (NAS) functionality. Our customers are looking for NAS, and Nimble can't give it to them."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 118 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Dell XtremIO, VMware vSAN and HPE 3PAR StoreServ.
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