We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and VMware vSAN 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 ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"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 management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"We like the performance."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"The performance and the processor are good."
"If a ransomware or enterprise-level attack happens, my infrastructure remains totally secure. If any virtual machine gets damaged or collapses, we have built a backup solution, which will take a minute to restore the same version of HPE Nimble Storage in our company."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"Scalability in vSAN has been really good. It's very easy to add nodes in, to automatically generate the drives and the disk groups. It has been a piece of cake, surprisingly so."
"It scales well. We have plenty of room to grow."
"The most valuable features are its performance, simplicity, and synchronicity with vSphere."
"I like the tolerance of VMware vSAN."
"Being able to deploy multiple applications with virtual servers is the most valuable for us. The capacity of the system is quite constant so it's got some of the good features."
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"The technical support is good. We are always thankful for the technical support from VMware. They are very supportive when we have a technical problem."
"The most valuable feature for our customers is vMotion. It allows them to shut down virtual machines and migrate them to others servers."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"The price could be better."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"There should be faster interfaces."
"The stability can be improved."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
"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 see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"Nimble Storage could increase its flexibility by adding more protocol options. Nimble mainly uses fibre channel protocols, whereas many other storage arrays support fibre channel, iCSI, and NFS protocols."
"There is always a challenge with their firmware."
"Integration could be better."
"If we have some complicated issues, you have to use the command lines interface. Not everything is possible to be fixed in the GUI. This is a drawback, that some things have to be fixed via command-line interface and should be able to be done in the GUI."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
"There is a room for improvement on the latest version of compatibility with the VMware product, especially for vSAN and with other vendors on their motherboards and driver configurations."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
"It could be more robust. The latency is also an issue for us, and the reliability. I would like it to be faster and a little more flexible."
"Enterprise customers get discounts on the solution's licensing pricing, but it is too expensive for SMB customers."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, IBM FlashSystem and NetApp AFF, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE Hyper Converged.
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