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."All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"We have seen our average latency go from four milliseconds to point four. Therefore, we are getting 10 times better performance down to the end user on everything. We have seen an increase in our IOPS by ten times."
"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."
"Scalability is another reason we chose to go with Nimble: upgrading to another storage array. If we need higher capacity or throughput, we can just replace controllers, we don't have to replace or forklift-upgrade the whole chassis."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"The setup was very, very simple. When we got our AF5000, no kidding, we had it up in production within two hours"
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"InfoSight is a valuable feature."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use."
"It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs!"
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"The price should be lower."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"You could argue that it would be preferable if everything were cheaper in order to save taxpayer money."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"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."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"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."
"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."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"I think with the world soon becoming only SSD, possibly NVMe, and 3D Xpoint. It would make sense for Tintri to drop the hybrid array down the line."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"What I feel would be nice, in terms of a wishlist, is scalability. Rather than replacing the whole appliance, I would like to be able to just add another unit and scale it like that."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"On the software side, I suggest adding integration with backups software like CommVault Simpana or Veeam where these products can integrate with the array and trigger things like snapshots for backup, etc."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 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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