HPE Nimble Storage Primary Use Case
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Thomas Godden
Senior Storage Specialist, Digital Systems at Shaw Communications
We use HPE Nimble Storage for VMware VMDK object workloads.
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TariqNazir
Network Security Specialist with 10,001+ employees
I primarily use the solution for storage.
View full review »HPE Nimble Storage offers a 6-nines data availability, meaning it offers 99.99 percent data availability. I am able to achieve 6-nines data availability with HPE Nimble Storage.
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We're a reseller. We're a managed security agency.
Our clients need fast storage. They run VM environments on it.
View full review »We use Nimble Storage to virtualize several specialized workloads.
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Principa0182
Principal Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
For my new company, we bought tens of them, almost 50. Our use case is to swap out the existing FCoE infrastructure from one of the other array providers and switch to Nimble because we were having performance issues. And the use case is more for our KSN databases. We chose Nimble because we need high performance, low latency, and a good price for SSD. We PoC'ed, and they won.
View full review »HPE Nimble Storage is used for data backups.
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Atul Sohla
Operations Manager at Nuvollo Corp.
Our primary use of this solution is to host business-critical applications in the cloud for customers.
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reviewer1026159
Assistant Circuit Executive for Information Technology at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a fairly standard nimble storage array.
We use HPE Nimble Storage as our typical SAN for virtual environment storage and shared storage.
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Sanjeev JHA
IT Manager at Harvard University
We use it to extend the data center a little further. We have videos which are very large in size and which cannot be compressed. We ran out of space in the data center so we moved the media data center and expanded it. The videos are a business-critical application. We provide videos for students to access 24/7.
View full review »We are using it for our high availability cluster.
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Systems667
IT Infrastructure & Systems Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
The primary use case is to monitor my storage.
We are in radiology. Although most of our radiologists just read x-rays, there are moments when it is STAT read, where they have to read things ASAP. This applies to the emergency room and emergency departments. Sometimes, things need to be read, and it is a matter of life or death. This can also apply to cancers, detections, etc. Therefore, we need to make sure the storage stays up, and it is working. Then, our radiologists can do their job.
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SrManagea63e
Sr Manager, Computing at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use Nimble for our virtualized workloads.
We have been using it close to three years. Therefore, it was even before the HPE acquisition of Nimble that we started using it.
It has been performing well so far. Initially, we purchased Nimble for low-end or less critical workloads, and it has started to evolve. Now, it is right up there with our Tier-Two storage for CO3 and CO4 level workloads.
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VPTech3691
Vice President Tech Operations at Ten-X, LLC
Our Nimble unit serves our corporate storage infrastructure, all running VMware on top of it. It's primarily VDI file storage and the virtual environment itself.
We have been using it for about three years and the performance has been excellent. We haven't had any outages.
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FElmc Carl Palapal
Sr. Infra. Support Egineer / Tech .Consultant at CANAR OFFICE SYSTEMS
The solution can be used for SAP HANA applications and some Linux-based databases. Our customers use it for SUSE Linux.
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Christian Poortvliet
Head of IT at One
We use it in small business setups with 10, 15, or 20 VMs per customer. Our entire system runs on Nimble Storage, e.g., Windows Active Directory, Windows Servers, and WEP.
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ITInfrasbde5
IT Infrastructure Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
It is our primary source platform. It underlines all of our Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 applications. We use hybrid, not flash.
View full review »The AF5000 array is the primary storage for our iManage DMS 10 document management systems. It allows the best performance for users using the system.
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PrasadPerumpillil
Manager implementation at XENOTTABYTE
We use the solution as VMware SRM’s database storage.
View full review »We primarily use it for storage.
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Jeff Tedform
Senior Network Administrator at a university with 201-500 employees
We use it for all of our storage, backups, and our user storage. Everything goes onto it. We have gone from multiple devices down to a single Nimble.
It hosts all of our databases for all of our servers. It hosts the servers themselves and our GFS retention jobs. It hosts everything that is critical for our business.
We went from hosting a lot of our external storage on ten different NASs. Now, we have all of our storage on a Nimble. Previously, we had three or four chassis just full of stuff. We consolidated our server space down to 25 percent of what it used to be, just from storage.
It is because of the way Nimble handles that storage. It can compress it down, making it smaller for us.
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reviewer1130226
Service Desk Manager at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use case if for our central data storage. This contains our files, financial services, and customer data.
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Dustin Newby
IT Director at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
We use Nimble for both our primary storage and for VDI.
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Ricardo Buysse
HPE Technical Support Manager at Servicios GZ, C.A.
We currently work with banks and insurance companies, who are our primary customers with regard to HPE Nimble Storage.
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HeadOfIn5041
Head of Infrastructure and Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Secondary storage and supplemental primary storage are our use cases. We use Nimble for business-critical applications such as accounting, our in-house EPS platforms.
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MattBonfield
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
We have type of a private cloud-hosted solution in our data center. Nimble allows incredibly, fast data access for our SAN to our hypervisors and cluster. Nimble is just so good at what they do as far as the adaptive and hybrid flash stuff. We have two arrays: We have an adaptive and hybrid.
We have a lot of healthcare clients. We have some who are in surgery at five in the morning. We are running these pretty heavy, intensive databases and SQL servers on the Nimble (or which are pulling off the Nimble). Having that type of server pinned to a specific volume, then having that volume accessible and prioritized over the other data which is on there, that is super helpful. This is why we like Nimble and what they do.
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ITManage722b
IT Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
We have a primary data center, and then a secondary data center for our applications and our colo (colocation data center). Our financial and document management systems are on this platform.
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Rick Shantz
IT Manager at Startech Computer Accessories
The primary use case is production storage. We run ERP applications, as an example, of our business-critical applications.
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Lee Holland
Director Of IT at Okland Construction Company, Inc.
We use Nimble to virtualize all of our applications. For the hypervisor we use VMware. We use Nimble for the storage platform for the hypervisor.
It's been performing amazingly.
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Randy Daming
Consulting Engineer at Ameren Corporation
It is storage for our VMware vSphere servers. It is also a destination for some Commvault backups and replications. We use it for a number of things.
It has been three years, and the performance has been great. We have bought eight more since buying the first one.
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Infrastr2c88
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
In our company, it is the back-end storage for virtual machines and file storage.
On our website, there are many different business-critical things running.
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reviewer1589604
Infrastructure Specialist at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We use HPE Nimble Storage as a storage solution.
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Larry Stewart
Director of Hosting Operations at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use for this solution is SAN storage for virtual server workloads. We do not use cloud volumes.
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Christian Cipolat
Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at TAL
It's an adjunct storage repository and it compliments our 3PAR solution. We currently use it as a file store for backup, file, and compute storage workloads.
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Mitchell Threadgill
Infrastructure Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I use HPE Nimble Storage for Hyper-V clusters. I'm using the latest OS and the latest firmware. I keep them updated.
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reviewer1223328
Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution for ERP.
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David Monarch
Enterprise Administrator at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
We are using HPE Nimble Storage of backing up our data.
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Troy Atwood
VP Of Global Technology at Synexys
Nimble is a secondary VMware environment in our organization, so it's not running mission-critical applications at this point or responsible for complex business needs.
View full review »Our customers use the solution for cyber security.
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Lorna Liu
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
We are resellers. We provide products to our customers.
Unfortunately, we were not able to sell this product because it is too expensive. We use it in our own cloud. We created a VMware VCPP cloud to provide VMware services to our enterprise customers.
View full review »Nimble Storage is our primary production storage vendor. We use this with VMware on a daily basis including a new AFA5000 all-flash array for our DMS system.
View full review »We use HPE Nimble for deduplication and to compress data.
We have a large number of customers that rely on high availability from this product.
View full review »It's central SAN storage for all of our production and test data. It's fairly fundamental to our business. As a law firm, we have vast amounts of data that have to be incredible secure. It underpins the delivery of all of our services.
It's performing very well. We've had it for three years. It's exceeded all expectations since we had it.
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Erwin Algas
IT Manager at Epson Precision (Philippines), Inc.
We primarily use Nimble Storage for our production system.
We have a three-tier infrastructure.
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reviewer999681
ICT Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We have two use cases for the solution. One use case is for our daily work. Another use case is our shared platform. We are a service provider and we have our shared platform to sell some power, some compute and storage to our customers.
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reviewer1409538
ICT Director KA Infra at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use HPE Nimble Storage for general purposes, not for high performance, just for archiving and backup solutions.
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reviewer1387293
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The companies that bought this solution from us use it for VMware. They have also used some Oracle in the Red Hat operating system. It's mostly used for the VMware environment. The companies we provide the solution to are generally medium size; one of them is a hospital and the other is an agency that controls the sale of gas. We are partners of HPE Nimble Storage and I'm the technical manager of the company.
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Yosef Emiru
System Engineer at Kenera International Trading PLC
We used HPE Nimble Storage for several purposes. Primarily, it served as our storage solution.
Additionally, we employed it for disk-based backups. We also had a tape system in place and HPE Nimble Storage integrated seamlessly with our HPE Synergy infrastructure.
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Naguib Wasef
HPE Product Manager at MAS Egypt
We are resellers and HPE Nimble Storage is one of the products that we provide to our customers. We are not end-users of the solution.
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Solution9877
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The primary use case is storage virtualization. We use it for public facing customer workloads.
View full review »This is the SAN for our network. We house all of our network files here, as well as our virtual machines.
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reviewer1030287
Infrastructure and IT Support Coordinator with 201-500 employees
Production Storage, all of our 200 virtual servers use this storage.
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reviewer1314750
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
We primarily use the solution to connect to the HCI. We try to connect to HCI and share the storage space to a VM farm.
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reviewer1473747
IT Support Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is used for a storage area network(SAN) that we store files and backups on.
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reviewer1245675
Information Technology Operations Manager at Weber Metals
I use HPE Nimble for my SAN storage solution.
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reviewer1358325
Technical Specialist at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
We are a solution provider and Nimble is one of the storage products that we implement for our clients.
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Viacheslav-Romanchenko
IT Customer Support Specialist at AM-BITS LLC
We use HPE Nimble Storage for virtual infrastructure by VMware and for Oracle databases.
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reviewer1479924
Senior IT Officer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We have a server that needs a faster distribution solution, and we use Nimble for its storage.
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reviewer1057566
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We will be using this solution for virtualizing specific workloads that we have.
View full review »We use the solution for customer data storage.
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HPE Nimble Storage
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about HPE Nimble Storage. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.