We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp AFF 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 GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"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."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"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."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"It's given us more time to do the important things, less time worrying about SANs and failures and picking up the pieces. It just works."
"The quality of the service and management tools let us make contractual guarantees for storage performance for customers. That's something we couldn't do before."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"The most valuable feature is the management of Nimble Storage, InfoSight. This is like a cloud. That's really a very nice feature. I think that's the only reason to buy Nimble Storage."
"Performance, reliability, InfoSight, the ability to upgrade the O/S on the SAN without taking it down, and cost."
"Not only is it high performing, but it is also more compact and fits better in our storage arrays than equipment from other storage providers."
"The most valuable feature is InfoSight, and the ability that InfoSight gives you, from insight within your environment to what is going on at the storage layer."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"We have SQL clusters across the United States. It has sped up our IOPS and made it a lot easier for users."
"We had some customers who were running virtualization workloads on classical spinning disks. We implemented an AFF system, and they got a huge performance boost out of it because the latency of the SSDs is simply much lower. Actually, most customers benefit from the improved latency and performance from the AFF systems."
"It is a stable solution."
"I think it is a very stable product."
"We are using the AQoS operating system, which allows us to get a lot more out of our AFF systems."
"The business copy solution has become faster using SnapMirror."
"It has a good interface. Its configuration and flexibility are also good."
"Storage is very reliable. You don't have to do much maintenance."
"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."
"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."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
"I would like to see more integrations."
"We face challenges with hardware delivery."
"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."
"When sizing the array based on requirements the option to add more network cards for throughput would be something to help clients."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"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 native network attached storage (NAS) functionality. Our customers are looking for NAS, and Nimble can't give it to them."
"I think adding more features to make it more cloud enabled will help us with cloud tiering and simplify the whole cloud operations when it's integrating with our on-prem AFF products. That is one area where we would like to see more improvements from NetApp."
"Going forward, I would like improvement in the response latencies, capacity size, cache, and controller size."
"The product has size limitations on fax volume. They have increased from 100 to 300, which is still less than other vendors. Or flex groups are not supported."
"The response to basic problems could be faster. They usually respond fast when there are critical issues, but you always want it right now."
"The stability is good but there is room for improvement with other options."
"We would like to have NVMe on FabricPool working because it broke our backups. We enabled FabricPool to do the tiering from our AFFs to our Webscale but it sort of broke our Cobalt backups."
"The product should be more competitive and come up with additional features. They should keep the client always in mind and as the top priority. This would be the best way to compete with other solutions."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while NetApp AFF is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, VMware vSAN and HPE Primera. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. NetApp AFF report.
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