The most valuable features of HPE Nimble dHCI are that you can scale compute and storage independently, Triple+ Parity RAID can tolerate three simultaneous drive failures with any data loss, and HPE Infosight AI platform which makes it the industry's most intelligent storage solution.

Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue.

The product provides zero downtime. HCI is good for tier-2 and tier-3 applications. However, dHCI is the best choice if we are looking for mission-critical applications or VDI on which the end users depend.

In addition to the notary thing of HPE, it is one of the most stable evolving companies. With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me. 

The solution is easy to use. 

Hyperconverged offers good performance. It's more effective, and it's giving us more performance. It's like an all-in-one solution. Therefore, it's all in one solution instead of going with different components. It offers easier management. 

We have something called Autonomous Support System, which issues a ticket whenever there is an issue. It's run on artificial intelligence wherein if there is any issue in the system, the software, generates the case itself. It will resolve the case and it will close the case. This is one of the great features of Nimble dHCI. 

We can independently upgrade. We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure.

What's really intriguing about it is they truly took everything that was required to run on the host, typically in an HCI solution, and ran it out of the storage. 

You don't have to have any virtual controllers or any of that management that takes away from the process or a memory that you would use for your virtualization. You don't have to take any of your resources away — it's brilliant.

The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud. It has intelligent replication to the point where I can replicate to two different sites and to the cloud. 

There's a three, two, one, zero rule. That means I need three copies of my data on two different types of media and I need one of them to be protected from ransomware. I need it to be immutable. The zero stands for zero errors; I need to know that my backup was successful and I've actually tested it and can say that I can restore from it. A lot of people miss that point. 

The intelligence of the solution, in general, is great. There are other great features like Triple+ parity RAID. They are on par, or better than any of the other storage vendors out there for a much more reasonable price, but what really puts them over the top for customers is the intelligence.

Every time a vendor buys someone else, and HP is no different than anyone else, they usually mark it up. When they bought Nimble, I said, "Oh man, that's it. Nimble's done. They're going to screw it up." And they didn't. They actually invested a lot of time and a lot of resources to make it better and to take what was good inside of Nimble, including the InfoSite intelligence, and applied it to other products in their portfolio to make the whole stack intelligent. They really did what they set out to do, which blows me away because typically they fall down on their face.

Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective. 

I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information.

Generally, I use it for the DRF and I make sure that my VMs are all up to date. I make sure that they're all sitting on a host that's got decent resources. If they need to be moved, they'll get moved. 

I like the memory management and I like the instant clone feature they have for the Horizons. That's what I'm using. I'm not utilizing the view, I'm utilizing their instant clone from VMware Horizons - vStorage motion, and things like that.

The scaling is great.

Technical support via the phone is helpful.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is a good solution. Load-wise, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is better than other solutions like NetApp.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is fast and easy to use. My favorite feature is its support. You will get support within one minute.

Nimble is easy to use, but hard to install. Once it's installed, it's user-friendly. Reporting is another advantage because we get a lot of statistical forecasting. It helps us see into the future with that.

HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good.

We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs.

The product, in general, is very strong, very robust. The product is excellent. 

So far, the solution's performance is very good.

The product scales quite well.

It's a full-fledged product. You can keep on adding memory, you can keep on adding the box, and you can keep on adding the hard drive. It's one of the best products.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability.

The solution is easy to use.  

It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors.

The pricing is good.

The stability seems to be reliable. 

The in-line compression is awesome as well as the data loop, because we save somewhere around 80 terabytes capacity, but the actual usage was around 15/20 terabytes. Configurations are simple, even the API configurations. Nimble satisfies my requirements which is great. 

The deduplication features are quite valuable to us.

Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability. 

The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads.