HPE Nimble Storage Other Advice

TG
Senior Storage Specialist, Digital Systems at Shaw Communications

We are transitioning a lot of our hardware to Azure and we partnered with Microsoft on their cloud services. For our on-premise setup, we are doing a switch from traditional storage arrays to more of a VMware Cloud Foundation type of structure where we are using VMware vSAN instead of storage arrays.

I rate HPE Nimble Storage an eight out of ten.

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TN
Network Security Specialist with 10,001+ employees

I'd advise other potential users not to go anywhere else and just use Nimble. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

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Ajit Pratap Kundan - PeerSpot reviewer
PreSales Lead- Government & Defense at a security firm with 51-200 employees

The solution's maintenance is very easy. I can contact HPE's support team or raise a ticket via the dashboard, and we can get L1 or L2 support remotely. I don't require somebody to come to my premises and do the maintenance.

Those who run mission-critical applications that can bring you business or create revenues need to opt for HPE Nimble Storage, as it is the best solution that can give you 100 percent uptime. With HPE Nimble Storage, you can provide TCO and ROI to your management or CFO as it offers you a better deal, especially in terms of CapEx costs.

I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

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HPE Nimble Storage
March 2024
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Andrew Mcbeath - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at Base-2 ICT Services Ltd

Make sure you scale it correctly the first time. Just make sure you're very aware of your own environment and exactly what you're going to be running.

I'd rate it a solid nine out of ten.

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Sidney Wong - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Architecture & Technology at BAI Communications

I rate HPE Nimble Storage seven out of 10. It's a good solution, but there are other options. I would recommend it, depending on your workloads. 

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EH
Principal Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Do the hard work and it pays for itself. Do a PoC and, when you check your requirements, it will fill in most of them if not all.

This solution is a nine out of 10 because it's not active-active. If it was active-active it would be a 10 because the data reduction is so good it's ridiculous.

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Prataparao Dileep - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solution's Consultant for HPE Storage Devices at Karvy Innotech

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate HPE Nimble Storage an eight out of ten.

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AS
Operations Manager at Nuvollo Corp.

On a scale of one to ten, I would say this product is a nine. I think it does what it promises and support is decent. The only drawback I find is the size of the components. They never told us that the hardware has a large form factor and we were barely able to squeeze it into our older racks.

Storage is a critical piece of our business and, with a small team like the one that we have, Nimble ends up being a pretty good system that fits our need while lowering administrative needs.

For anyone considering this solution seriously, I would suggest you do your research with other competitors out there and look at what you are using, what type of infrastructure you have, as well as resources you have to support your system. Based on that, I would do a small POC (Proof of Concept). The flash version is more expensive, but I think you can get away with this with a hybrid model. The solution we chose is a hybrid system which we found to be just as good as the flash system. We have another system that is flash-only and the hybrid appears to behave just as well. We accomplished that by just adding 20% or so SSDs and doing that gave us what we needed to achieve similar performance.

We have feeds into HP that give us the Infosight analysis. However, I'm not sure if we're doing it proactively.

The all-flash solution could be considered as positioning our organization for growth, but we also have a hybrid system which we find just as good as the flash. Either would position us for growth compared to previous solutions.

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RP
Assistant Circuit Executive for Information Technology at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We don't have any extraordinary requirements. We simply require a large amount of shared storage. It's perfectly functional. 

It integrates well with VMware, as do the majority of the products. We are not doing anything exceptional.

I would rate HPE Nimble Storage a ten out of ten.

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JM
Director of Information Technology at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

Be prepared for your staff to want to abandon all other SAN’s you may have in place. Make sure your network and network switches are capable of handling the performance, because it would be a shame to buy something so incredibly fast only to choke it down on the Ethernet side of things.

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SJ
IT Manager at Harvard University

We like the flexibility. Anybody who is looking for a product that is easy to use and deploy, this is good.

I do need to evaluate the security aspect of it, especially intelligence to counter any unpredictable growth. I would also like to see how to use the storage space efficiently, because we do, at times, suddenly come across big videos.

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AB
Head Of Information Technology at Zambia National Building Society

We are just a user.

I'm learning to understand it. I originally was not a support administrator, however, over time, found that it's actually straightforward. I'm looking forward to getting certified or trained in Nimble.

I would advise people to go for it. They just need to make sure that they understand the support around Nimble, in terms of them knowing how to support solutions. Obviously, you don't want every call that comes to you to have to phone Nimble to do it for you. You want to support everyone quickly and escalate issues only.

Also, ensure that you look out for the configuration or proposed architecture from Nimble in terms of the best implementation approach where you have the store ones and the other supporting components to get it right. Sometimes people rush to make it cheaper, however, then you eliminate certain key components that backup mechanisms.

So far, that solution is great. I'd rate it nine out of ten.

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Rouben Amirthasawmy - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Sun Resorts

If you want deduplication storage, HPE Nimble Storage is the solution for you, and if you want to run a unit for storage, then Nimble is the best. For deduplication, it is very nice because it dedupes every file you create. You will save storage space. I would give this solution an eight out of ten.

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TR
IT Infrastructure & Systems Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

At my previous place of employment, I mentioned to my previous boss about this solution because it would have been good at my prior place of employment. They were in a similar situation. They had flash, spinning disks, etc. However, they used Pure Storage, Hitachi, and even some Dell EMC. When you have so many different arrays, or so many different companies, that you have to work with, it is very easy when there is a problem for a vendor to point their finger at another vendor. For a better chance of a successful integration, keep the products (and vendors) down to a minimum.

I don't really have to do a whole lot to it. Plug it in, and it does its job successfully.

The performance was already good. This isn't a reactionary, but being proactive. We are doing these measures to ensure that we don't have an issue.

The biggest lesson learned is to keep using Nimble.

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HG
Sr Manager, Computing at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It is a good investment, especially on virtualized workloads. We have seen a lot of benefit there. We have not used it for other types of virtual workloads, both mixed workload applications and databases. 

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CY
Vice President Tech Operations at Ten-X, LLC

I'd put Nimble at about an eight out of 10 because Pure storage reset our standard for what is absolutely the best. Pure is a whole different platform and not hybrid. I like Nimble, it's very good, it works, it's definitely cost-effective. It's not all-flash, so you don't get the performance of all-flash. But if you don't have a couple of million dollars to spend on Pure, Nimble is an excellent choice.

In terms of advice, it gets down to budget. Nimble fills a need for performance within a budget that is in the sub-million dollar range. If you're going up over a million dollars, where you can just throw money at the solution, there is Pure and there is Texas Memory Systems and all those high-end solutions. But if you want enterprise-level storage and you want a hybrid, the Nimble has served us well.

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CP
Sr. Infra. Support Egineer / Tech .Consultant at CANAR OFFICE SYSTEMS

I haven't checked the latest version of Nimble yet. Maybe there will be lots of improvements after the 2019 version. It is a good solution. I recommend it. My recommendation depends on what the customer needs. Sometimes, customers overdo the specifications. Sometimes they need only SaaS-based storage.

Customers should know what they need and what applications are running on it. Then, the partners can recommend a solution accordingly. Customers should not take the specification directly to the supplier. They should ask the partners. Partners would give cost-effective recommendations.

Overall, I rate the product a ten out of ten.

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CP
Head of IT at One

Go with Nimble if you want the best.

It is reliable, the support is good, and it provides us with good performance.

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RB
IT Infrastructure Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Definitely, give the product a go and do a PoC.

It fits my needs perfectly.

Biggest lesson learnt: Sometimes, the simplest solution is actually a complex solution.

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it_user572736 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

My advice would be to use it. Just make sure whether you need to go with an all solid-state drive solution or whether you can use their hybrid solution, because there's going to be a big price difference.

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Chris Childerhose - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at ThinkON

Nimble AF is a great platform and is only getting better. On top of that, InfoSight's great technical support makes it an easy choice.

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PP
Manager implementation at XENOTTABYTE

I would rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. We require one technical engineer for the product’s maintenance.

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Raul Borges - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Nuxiba

I would rate HPE Nimble Storage a nine out of ten.

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JT
Senior Network Administrator at a university with 201-500 employees

I would definitely point a colleague toward the Nimble product. Most of my peers are also at universities, and the product fits perfectly into what we are trying to do. As another administrator at another university, it will be key to what they are doing.

It has met all of our needs. We haven't had any issues.

They have been consistently innovating stuff and seeing it before we even think of the possible outcomes. We are consistently shocked by what is coming out.

We do HIPAA compliance as a university. Part of that compliance has to do with how we back up employee files, which we do on the cloud, but we don't use the Nimble for that. 

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it_user1213641 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & System Support Engineer at a recruiting/HR firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We're currently using model CS5000 and we're on version 5.05.200.

We are not yet on the cloud. We're on-premise. We installed it in our data center. In tests and features, they call it InfoSight. InfoSight collects logs and tries to send to the cloud. It's customizable, and it offers reports for you and any upgrade. It tries to give you information about your device.

I'd recommend the solution. I'd rate it nine out of ten.

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GB
Service Desk Manager at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is efficient in more than one way. 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. This helps out with space in the data center.

We have experienced an increase in performance of ten to fifteen percent.

This product has proven itself to be very reliable and we're looking forward to where it's going to take us in the future. Everything that they've told us it's going to do, it has done and exceeded.

The biggest lesson that I have learned is not to run at any solution that is already out there. Really dive into what it is that you need. Find out what your baseline is, and have a number in mind from a cost perspective. Then take a look at what your priorities are. Is it cost, or uptime, or perhaps having a reliable solution? Always define what your parameters are.

My advice to anybody considering a solution such as this is to always do your research. Look at everything, including peer evaluations, and always take your time. I have met a lot of people that try to rush into a solution and then end up finding stuff that they didn't think they needed. So, as much as possible, take your time and do your studies.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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it_user577323 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Leader at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Go for it. It's definitely a good product from the current scheme of things and the current market trends. We are service providers; we do provide other service models to many customers and have a huge range of customers, so we do evaluate a lot of products, and we do evaluate a lot of softwares/services.

We found Nimble to be very interesting, and we are maintaining a good partnership with them. In fact, it's making good sense for the business models, and it's also meeting up with multiple use cases, i.e., VDI or non-persistent VDI, server workloads, database workloads, etc. Definitely, it is a good product and I would recommend it in the current scheme of things; it's the way to go.

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DN
IT Director at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Look at the portfolio and decide what meets your needs because there is a wide range of performance that you can get out there. I've been burned before, a little bit, on some of the lower-performance arrays. You get them in there and within three months you have already maxed out the performance. So make sure you buy what you need. Get something that's going to be upgradable and last.

Nimble has really met all of our needs and at a price we could afford. It certainly wasn't as expensive as a lot of other all-flash solutions that we could have bought. It does what we need it to do. It's expandable, everything is built into it, you don't have to go by other agents to do things, the replication is built in.

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it_user261213 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Team Lead at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nimble Storage array is a good buy no matter which way you slice it. I’m thinking it fits into anything but the large enterprise arena and they are making progress on that with some of their offerings.

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RB
HPE Technical Support Manager at Servicios GZ, C.A.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate HPE Nimble Storage at nine. It is less expensive than some of the other options and is very easy to install.

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CL
Head of Infrastructure and Operations at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

My advice is that you bring it onsite and evaluate InfoSight's reporting.

The biggest lesson we've learned from using Nimble is that it provides better insight with a single pane of glass.

It's feature-complete for what we are looking for. I rate it a ten out of ten. We've been very happy with Nimble.

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MB
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Try it out. Demo it. Just have somebody put it in front of you, so you can poke around and demonstrate how it works with a real environment. Check out a Hyper-V or VMware. VMware is a lot more integrated with Nimble than Hyper-V. Live migrate your stuff. Move your stuff. Send backups to it. Send it over across the wire to a DR. Everything just works, and that is what we want.

It has been rock solid, 100 percent on time, and we have never had any issues with it.

We receive about a 2.4x compression rate, even on our old HPE CS300. With the new HF-Series, we will probably achieve a lot more than that because they have a lot of deduplication, etc. Unfortunately, we just deployed that last week. So, we are still in the trial process with it.

All-flash is coming down the pipeline. We don't have all-flash yet. We have all hybrid arrays. We are moving in that direction probably within the next two years or so.

We don't utilize any public cloud or HPE cloud stuff yet.

Biggest lesson learnt: Always go with a great vendor that has a great product.

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it_user683268 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director IT at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Well its price is very important but also the support. It has a global presence. We are in 35 countries. So, whenever we choose a solution or a standard, we need to define that very clearly. Response time and the technology itself.

I mean go for it. It's a good solution. It's a right mix between costs and return on investment. Definitely upgrade.

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DL
Director of IT at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

Give it a try with a POC. This is one of the rare vendors that do what they say they will. Their sales team is very easy to work with.

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SR
IT Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

Using this solution has shown us some of the things that are possible, and what we can better improve on in the future.

Nimble Storage is a solution that I would recommend to anybody who is in the same kind of space as I am.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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RS
IT Manager at Startech Computer Accessories

We receive great support. We have had no unplanned downtime.

Our experience with the product has been excellent.

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LH
Director Of IT at Okland Construction Company, Inc.

From a virtualized infrastructure standpoint, I would advise that, if you are looking for a high-performing storage array - not necessarily long-term storage because the price per gig is pretty expensive on an all-flash array. But, application performance, database performance, if you're running Exchange environments, SQL environments, If you're doing that type of stuff, then Nimble is a good match for that type of workload.

I would definitely and easily rate Nimble a 10 out of 10.

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RD
Consulting Engineer at Ameren Corporation

Try it out. You will love InfoSight, their online viewing tool, it is a wonderful addition. HPE thought so too, so they bought it and are putting it in everywhere. It is great, no downtime, with no care and feeding from my point of view. It just works.

It has surpassed all of our needs, it has been great. I need to buy more now, I am almost out of capacity. I would give it an unqualified 10 out of 10.

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TM
President at HIGH POINT NETWORKS LLC

I am giving it a 10 out of 10 because I can't think of a reason why I would not. The product is good and always has been.

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it_user302121 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Systems Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

If you're not using it for VDI, it's also good for general storage.

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NR
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

The product comes down to budget, I/O, and the use case that you need. 

It is really efficient in the size that it is.

Biggest lesson learnt: All-flash matters.

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it_user683238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I'd definitely tell them to go with Nimble. I would suggest that they have the Nimble engineer come on site. They don't charge you for that part. This is just so you can get all the thing set up correctly the first time so you are ready to go when you put it into production.

When looking for a vendor, I look for reliability, the features that we need, and the cost.

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it_user570309 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Embrace simplicity. You can dispense with in-house deployed administration tools or tricky CLI GUIs. All you need is just a simple and understandable web interface.

Depending on which product platform you are about to replace, you will either just gain far better and predictable performance or you will embark on a journey where you will have to leave the comfort of having a multi-protocol NAS into NFS and/or SMB file servers using Nimble block storage in the backend.

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it_user576459 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Microsoft, Storage And Backup, Recovery & Archiving Services at a tech services company

Consider other options if file protocols are required. Enable encryption at the time of setup if required, prior to creating volumes.

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it_user561846 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Centre Services Manager at a tech company with 201-500 employees

If you’re looking to implement, ask for a trial; Nimble have been very accommodating with us and others. Their products speak for themselves and will show that the figures they post are actually lower than the performance you can get out their arrays. Speak to any Nimble client. There are lot that are happy to take reference calls. This alone speaks volumes for them as a company.

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it_user560274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

You will be up and running in an hour. Very easy steps to setup and five clicks to setup volumes, replication, etc.

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it_user216327 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager at a import and exporter with 501-1,000 employees

Embrace simplicity – no more in-house deployed admin tools or tricky CLI GUI’s, just a simple and understandable web interface.

Depending on which product platform you are about to replace – you will either just gain a far better and predictable performance or a journey where you will have to leave the comfort of having a multi-protocol NAS into NFS and OR SMB file servers using Nimble block storage in the backend.

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SQ
Infrastructure Specialist at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We are not utilizing the maximum functions. We are utilizing the protect facilities. 

HPE Nimble Storage is a good solution. it is useable in a production environment. However, the useability all depends on the environment. After a year if you want to renew the support, or have enhancements it is going to cost you more. Planning is very important.

We have switched from HPE Nimble Storage and we now use Pure Storage. 

I rate HPE Nimble Storage an eight out of ten.

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LS
Director of Hosting Operations at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this solution is to only make changes in maintenance windows, even when the engineers say that nothing will happen.

My advice to anybody who is implementing this solution is to go through a detailed sizing operation with HPE so that it can be appropriately scoped.

We do use this solution for business-critical applications but it is too broad and there are too many to name a specific example.

I like this product, but there is always room for improvement and nothing can be a ten.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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CC
Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at TAL

I think good evaluation criteria include checking the scalability of the product. I also think the reporting aspect of it is very complete.

I would rate it at eight out of 10, and the reason for that is it's not as flexible a storage solution as the current versions of 3PAR.

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it_user683190 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator ll at Calabrio

I would say jump on it right away, because it's really the solution. It is really user-friendly. It will make everybody's life easier. It's really wonderful.

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it_user560223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Systems Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Make full use of their Pre-Sales engineers, make them your best friend, they will stay with you for the journey and can assist you get the best out of the equipment.

Don’t be frightened of asking Support for help, if you authorise full data collection they can look at a wealth of information on your behalf covering more than the actual storage elements.

Ratings:

  • AFA 5000 - 10/10
  • CS260 - 9/10 - Only because the AFA is better as it has in-line de-duplication.
  • CS210 - 7/10 - Limited expansion without adding further trays.
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MT
Infrastructure Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I'd rate HPE Nimble Storage a ten out of ten.

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JL
Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We are resellers of the solution.

As resellers, sometimes how easy or hard the solution is to deal with and set up depends on the customer requirements. It's really subject to what a customer wants in their environment.

I'd rate the solution at a six out of ten.

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DM
Enterprise Administrator at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

It is a sound solution and we have not had many issues.

I rate HPE Nimble Storage a nine out of ten.

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SP
Tehnical Business Dev at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I have had a lot of personal success with it. Our organization has had a lot of success with it. It has a very straightforward presentation. It does the job for a lot of customers, and it's a great enterprise solution for many of them.

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TA
VP Of Global Technology at Synexys

I would rate Nimble an eight out of 10, with cost probably being the big factor. It was a little on the pricey side at the time that it was bought. I came in late to the game, it was already in place when I got to the company. But, going back over the documentation, it was probably a little pricey.

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RM
Sr VP Dep Director of IT at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am actually here, at the HPE Discover 2018 conference, to find out what they plan on doing with Nimble in the future. We're also a user of the SimpliVity stack and I didn't feel that the roadmap for that has played out. We're here to see how the Nimble is going to play out. I'm very interested because we're coming up on a refresh cycle and we want to know whether we want to go down that path or not.

I would rate it a 10 out of 10. I'm not being biased by any means. It checks all the boxes for us.

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it_user543450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Law Firm

Absolutely, try it out. For me, it was very easy because Nimble offered us to try and buy. They just came, set up the box, and I had a whole month's time to try it; it worked perfectly. For me, it was really easy.

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Vinu Randula - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead sales Engineer - Cybersecurity & Infrastructure at Adapt Information Technologies (Pvt) Ltd

I rate the solution as a seven.

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LL
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We are still trying other products. HPE GreenLake has very nice packaging. It's a financial program, and we used Nimble through this financing program. We didn't purchase it, we were testing. 

We are still testing other products, such as Dell Storage.

We have some local storage vendors, so we are not formally using it in production.

We are not able to recommend this product as we are still in the testing phase. We are still doing the POC tests.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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it_user552672 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Services Manager at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Prepare your network properly if using the iSCSI protocol.

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it_user549474 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Run a competitive PoC with your favorite arrays. Nimble will come out on top in performance AND price/performance.

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it_user430785 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Admin at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Please evaluate and review other solutions and from that, you can simply compare and experience the advantages of Nimble storage in terms of features, performance, cost effectiveness, reliability, and efficiency.

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it_user561675 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology Infrastructure at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Insure you have your iSCSI network ready. The Nimble agent on the hosts does require a restart. Data migration will depend on your application, our VM hosts were easy, while our SQL databases required planned downtime.

Nimble provides a rock-solid product, scalable with great support.

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Chris Childerhose - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at ThinkON

Given the chance to evaluate Nimble it is highly recommended. Their CASL architecture is very fast and being able to get the performance from the spinning disk that you see on some flash arrays is great. They are always improving the product and software including the recent changes to the InfoSight web page that allows Per-VM monitoring now. There is also excellent support and customer service when you need it.

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Luciano Batalha - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at EVONICEVONIC

In summary, this is a good product and I recommend it.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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it_user783996 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect

The most important criteria when selecting a vendor are that vendor's ability to support its platform into the future. Also, a track record of actually delivering a solution.

Nimble, when we went with them they were clearly a new company, but they clearly had marketed their product incredibly well, and knew what they were talking about. That was very obvious.

I give it a 10 out of 10, absolutely. I've worked with a lot of technologies and this, by far, outshone any other technology that I've ever used before; their ability to deliver, and ability to support their solution.

I'd say in the market of flash storage, there are quite a lot of vendors out there. Just take your time and don't rush into picking a storage supplier, just because a price looks good. At the end of the day, it underpins everything that you do, particularly if it's your production platform. Just take your time and actually consider your requirements properly.

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it_user783912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We deployed Nimble about nine months ago, across all of our managed services customers. We've got about six arrays, about 400 terabytes of data provisioned on Nimble at the moment.

When we look to work with a vendor like HPE or any other vendor, there are  a couple of things that are important to us. Support is the big one. Is it onshore? Is it local? Are they going to care, basically?

The other one that's important is, what can we do together in the market? One of the competitors that we evaluated in the proof of concept talked a lot about what we'd do in the market, and then made press releases with my competitors, contradicting what they were saying the day before. So trustworthiness, when it comes to co-marketing and that kind of thing; that they're going to support us. Don't get me wrong, you don't expect to be the only partner they work with. But you want them to at least be honest about "here's what we can do together, here's what we can't."

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it_user684969 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at Applies Computer Technologies

Try it. They have a VSA, so they have a virtual appliance. I don't know what the options are for testing it that way, but if there is an option to do a PoC, then give it a shot.

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CY
Vice President Tech Operations at Ten-X, LLC

Look at Nimble. It fits that median point of "I want something better than my own, home-grown solution", and "I don't to buy a product that is too expensive." It is squarely in the middle.

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it_user560253 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees

If you test it yourself, it is clear how it just beats every other product hands down.

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it_user560235 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Global IT Infrastructure at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

You will be very impressed – we didn’t know we had a latency issue on our email system until we were in the process of putting it into production. It was great that the Nimble could provide us an instant benefit.

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it_user261627 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Definitely have a sales engineer give you a demo/explanation of the technology.

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HS
Team Leader at PT.Helios Informatika Nusantara

I'm working with one of the distributors here in Indonesia, Helios Informatika Nusantara. Mainly I'm involved with managing the SMB company. 

I rate HPE Nimble Storage as a nine out of ten. 

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it_user571380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Systems Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

If you have the budget; go for it. As with any storage, don't under-buy, you'll always need more.

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AC
IT Contractor at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

I would give HPE Nimble Storage a rating of seven out of ten.

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JA
VP - Engineering Operations at WPG Consulting

We are resellers. 

We are using the most up-to-date version of the solution, however, I cannot speak to the exact version number. 

I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten. We haven't had any issues. 

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it_user569832 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Don't be hesitant, and trust their technology, because it works. Just because they don't have the market share of NetApp and EMC, isn't a reason to overlook them.


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it_user562509 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Buy Nimble Storage!

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it_user560250 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

If you're currently looking for a new storage solution in your environment, give Nimble Storage a chance. I can promise you, you won't be disappointed.

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it_user283428 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer with 51-200 employees

Nimble offers solid products, are very easy to implement, and offer great performance.

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EA
IT Manager at Epson Precision (Philippines), Inc.

My advice to anybody who is interested in HPE Nimble Storage is that I recommend it for high availability applications. I also suggest that they purchase spare parts for it.

Overall, this product is okay, and my only real complaint is about the cost.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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MA
ICT Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Ninety percent of the Nimble Storage we have sold because of InfoSight. I would advise potential users to check their management ecosystem and not the storage. The differentiator, and for me the most important part, is the management of the system. Because every system is fast and has high availability. That's normal at the moment. 

The biggest lesson I've learned from using this solution is that most of the storage problems are not storage-related. Because of the InfoSight cloud, you can see the whole ecosystem end to end. It's not always because a system is slow that's part of the storage; it could also be a server problem, it could also be a network problem, it could be something else. With InfoSight, this end-to-end view, we saw that most of these storage problems were not really storage problems.

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LV
ICT Director KA Infra at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My recommendation of this solution would depend on who is interested in using it, and what the purpose of using it would be.

I would rate HPE Nimble Storage a six out of ten.

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MA
ICT Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are an HPE partner. We also use it as customers and end-users. 

Right now, we use the HPE 3PAR 8000 systems, we use Nimble systems, and we also sell some systems like Primera.

I'd recommend the solution to other companies.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We're mostly quite happy with the product.

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MR
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We'll use this solution more in the future. With what I see now with the segregated hyper-converged infrastructure, I think that Nimble is going to get a lot more clients because hyper-converged solutions are a closed box and customers want this kind of solution. Customers felt that with the hyper-converged solutions, their hands were tied.

I would recommend this solution. It's been around for over 10 years, working with machine learning in artificial intelligence. It has inline deduplication for all flash storage, and a hybrid version that gives a lot of features. It's an architecture that's based on the controller.

The only drawback of this solution is the active-passive controller, otherwise I rate it very highly.

I rate this solution a nine out of 10.

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YE
System Engineer at Kenera International Trading PLC

In general, I would rate it a nine out of ten. I would recommend using it since it is HPE product. 

It's important to first determine your priorities. When deciding to use HPE Nimble Storage, consider whether you need an all-flash solution or a hybrid option. 

They offer both types, so you can choose based on your requirements. That flexibility is a key advantage for customers.e 

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NW
HPE Product Manager at MAS Egypt

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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DG
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

If you are not going for the all-flash arrays, then try to understand your I/O profile and working set. That will help you with your sizing. 

Performance is great. It is still reasonably expensive, but the product is good. It does what it needs to.

From an availability viewpoint, it provides us with confidence that applications will be available when they need to be.

It does what it says on its own.

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it_user552672 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Services Manager at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Take the time to purchase the proper head unit and port speeds.

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JC
Infrastructure and IT Support Coordinator with 201-500 employees

I rate HPE Nimble Storage a ten out of ten.

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SY
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

We are on the latest version of the solution. I can't speak to the exact version number.

I'd recommend it to others as it is quite easy to use and does offer very good performance. However, if you do not have experience with the product, you'll find the configuration process difficult. 

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We've been pretty happy with its capabilities.

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MV
IT Support Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I rate HPE Nimble Storage a nine out of ten.

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it_user560238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualisation/SAN Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees

They have All Flash arrays if people are concerned about Hybrid performance.

The support is the major factor in choosing Nimble and the performance has been great in all our Mix Load environments.

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TN
Information Technology Operations Manager at Weber Metals

This is a good product and if anybody asks me for SAN storage then I recommend HPENimble. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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it_user382815 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Infrastructure and Systems Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Nimble was pretty unique at the time with their new CASL architecture. There are many more products built on the same principles today on the market. So, as usual, shop around before making this strategic decision.

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it_user561885 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems and Network Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

Evaluate with Nimble, they are very helpful and able to answer queries about data storage requirements. No hard sell.

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SV
Technical Specialist at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

My advice for anybody who is implementing Nimble Storage is to perform a step-by-step deployment, and write down the steps as you go. This will ultimately save a lot of time if you experience any problems.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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it_user357297 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Please test first, i.e., get a PoC. The product relies on cache, so streaming data, such as CDR and logs, may not be a good fit, IOPS-wise.

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VR
IT Customer Support Specialist at AM-BITS LLC

I rate HPE Nimble Storage a ten out of ten.

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RL
Senior IT Officer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

I would recommend HPE Nimble Storage to potential users.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give HPE Nimble Storage a nine.

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it_user560973 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jr. Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Keep future needs in mind. Data might grow at a rate that surprises you.

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it_user265824 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Storage & Systems Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

Plan, plan, plan, plan and plan again.

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NV
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

This is a solution that I would recommend to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate HPE Nimble Storage a seven out of ten.

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it_user571839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Manager - Infrastructure Implementation Services at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

If you don’t have a storage team, this product is right for you.

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it_user565278 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Admin at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It depends on your infrastructure specialist, the very technically advanced specialists will prefer something that is not so user friendly. They would prefer more configuration options where only people with the technical know-how will be able to look after the system. Nimble is very easy to work with. Simple technical skilled personnel will be able to handle the system.

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it_user683187 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Try the solution, it's pretty straightforward to use and very easy to manage.

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it_user701493 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Specialst at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Risno Febriyanto - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara

The tool is better than any other data storage. HPE Nimble Storage is recommended for enterprise. I would recommend it to others and rate it a seven out of ten overall.

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March 2024
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