HPE Nimble Storage Previous Solutions

TG
Senior Storage Specialist, Digital Systems at Shaw Communications

We have used NetApp previously and our management preferred to use HPE Nimble Storage.

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TN
Network Security Specialist with 10,001+ employees

We've also used Dell storage solutions. They were not pure storage, however. 

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

I have mostly worked with HCI solutions in the market, which includes HPE Alletra dHCI.

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HPE Nimble Storage
March 2024
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Sidney Wong - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Architecture & Technology at BAI Communications

The other product we used was no longer available, so we switched to the next-best solution. 

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

We had 10 requirements and they filled most if not all the checkboxes, except for the active-active controller piece.

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

We have previously used many similar solutions, such as IBM and Pure Storage. I have found HPE Nimble Storage to be a better solution.

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AS
Operations Manager at Nuvollo Corp.

We previously used a different solution and knew we needed to change our solution to provide storage for our virtualization. The storage solution we had previously could not provide this and so it was not adequate. It was a rented system from another company and we were not happy with the performance.

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

Previously, we were using Dell EqualLogic's PS series. We have since removed that from our environment and moved to another storage platform. We switched to the other platform in late 2020. We switched to HPE Nimble Storage.

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

We used NetApp. We switched due to performance and manageability requirements. NetApp was simply an average performer, and managing it was difficult.

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SJ
IT Manager at Harvard University

We had legacy storage and my team recommended that we had to move to something new.

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Rouben Amirthasawmy - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Sun Resorts

We have Lenovo SAN Storage, but it's very slow and is not recommended. The deduplication is not smooth as well. Nimble is the best solution.

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

We did not have a previous solution.

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

We were looking for something where the cost would not be as high as what we were used to with traditional storage arrays. Even so, it has been on par in terms of performance, even though the price was lower, with what we had with other arrays.

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CY
Vice President Tech Operations at Ten-X, LLC

The switch was because of budgetary constraints. I knew I couldn't put in an EMC array in the initial solution that we used before, which was for VDI. If I had tried to deal with the EMC, I would not have gotten the performance and it would have cost a lot more. 

So we had to look outside the box. We chose Nimble over Tintri at the time, because Tintri's solution, while very good - with the things I was talking about, like granular VM, etc. - it's a footprint that you have to buy all at once. For the Nimble, I buy the unit and I can keep adding to it. With Tintri you have to pick a 13-terabyte or a 45-terabyte and when you run out of that, you buy another 45-terabyte. To me, it just didn't seem as expandable.

In terms of criteria for selecting a vendor, other than scalability and price, the key is performance. The bar was set at EMC. EMC just adds flash disks to a standard array and accelerates things somewhat, but it really doesn't get you to where you need to be. With EMC, you need to buy a lot of disks, you need to get into the 200s for spindle count. With any of the newer hybrid solutions - Tintri, Nimble, Pure - those are all all-flash solutions or hybrid solutions that take advantage of flash the way it's supposed to be.

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CP
Head of IT at One

When it came to renewal, the requirements are based on customer demands and projects.

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

The existing SAN was no longer a fit for purpose.

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Chris Childerhose - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at ThinkON

No, we are a Nimble shop with nine arrays now.

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

The former CIO hadn't upgraded anything in almost 20 years. Everything that we had was completely outdated. We wanted to move to a more efficient solution for our on-premise stuff. We were also looking into things with the cloud, but that doesn't have a lot to do with Nimble, per se. We just needed to modernize.

We had all on-premise bare metal servers. We got rid of it four years ago, when they were still doing their backups to tape. This is why when we went to the Nimble. We cut our use of space down to about 25 percent.

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

I have experience with a few different solutions. Nimble is quite a large solution that runs well without errors. One of its competitors, NetApp, is good but hard to configure. You need to really be an expert to configure it. With Nimble, you don't have to be overly technical. 

I've also worked with Huawei devices in the past as well.

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

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

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

We were using the NetApp solution beforehand. We switched because, one, obviously, we need to have simplicity in the solution; number two, the cost per unit should be attractive so that we can have good business models in place; obviously, the reliability and the interoperability with the product partners, like Cisco and the other compute and network platforms.

We had quite a few issues with other platforms, but Nimble has simplified it quite a bit and they have standardized quite a bit. It is providing results both operationally and commercially. It is very economical with much improved performance.

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

With the array we had, the maintenance contract was over and it was going to cost us a lot to continue support on it. Plus, we were having a lot of latency issues with it and a lot of complaints from users. We had a lot of support calls. We did a PoC on the Nimble and we were able to immediately show that it would improve our performance.

Our criteria when evaluating vendors include ease of use, something with a good management interface that doesn't require plug-ins or Java or Flash, so having the HTML5 interface was ideal. I really looked for something that would give me insight into what was happening on the array in my stack. With other arrays I've had in the past, it was really hard to pinpoint whether it was a storage issue, or a server issue, or a network issue. I also wanted an all-flash solution because I had tried some tiered storage before and it never seemed to have the data in the right tier. I had flash storage but what needed to be running fast wasn't in flash, it was on SATA and performance would take a hit.

We went with Nimble because it fit all our criteria. Also, the sales team was great and the fact that they offer free training is awesome. There are not very many vendors that do that. Doing our PoC really proved that it was the product that we needed to fill our needs.

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it_user683271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network and Infrastructure Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were using a different company before. There are actually several reasons why we decided to look at other vendors. One of which was that we had an unexpected outage with our older storage system for about 56 hours and it was significant enough that even though, we usually were loyal to that company we said, "Maybe we should start talking to other people." We brought in Nimble Storage as well as about three or four other vendors and we did a little bit of bake-off. We had conversations with the teams, asked for references and really when we started asking to put some of our workloads onto their appliance, that's when it really made a difference for us.

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

We used HP EVA Fiber Channel SANS before. The HP EVA SANS were starting to show their age and were very expensive to run and maintain. In addition to that, they didn’t perform as well as the current day machines.

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

Most of our clients used 3PAR StoreServ and HPE Primera.

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

We previously used Dell EMC. We went to Nimble because of space-growth requirements.

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

We were running out of space. The ability to compress and dedupe stuff with Nimble is unmatched.

Coming off old Dell EMC PowerVaults and our own custom SAN solution that that we had running with storage, it has changed our entire ecosystem dramatically with the fast access times and the 10 gig fiber coming off of it. There is just nothing like it. The access times are less than two milliseconds. 

We keep our latency super low, even with 200 plus servers on it, which has really changed the ball game. Access to that data used to be a lot slower. Now, it's not, which is great.

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

Many different SANs.

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

We implemented this solution because our legacy applications needed a better solution than we already had. We used to use the HP LeftHand Storage Array. Our performance has increased by approximately ten to fifteen percent.

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RS
IT Manager at Startech Computer Accessories

We had performance issue on our previous solution (AF3000).

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LH
Director Of IT at Okland Construction Company, Inc.

We were previously a Dell EqualLogic shop for some 15 years. In fact, we still have them in production. Since the acquisition of EqualLogic by Dell, the product doesn't seem to be increasing in technology as we would have hoped, as had happened previously. I had always had my eye on Nimble anyway and was waiting for the right opportunity. That opportunity came, and I already knew what I wanted. I jumped ship and we're going full speed ahead with Nimble.

We're transitioning everything over to Nimble because of the high performance we get out of it and the ease of use. From a supportability standpoint, it's a lot simpler. The Nimble people seem to detect when things have problems before we report that there's an issue.

We needed a vendor that would come in at a similar price point, which they did. But we needed to have a better way of doing disaster recovery. That was probably the primary objective, how we would handle that going forward. The way we did Snapshotting, the old Dell EqualLogic way, was somewhat bloated, took up a lot of space and required a lot of free array space. With Nimble, a lot of those limitations didn't exist. Also, obviously, compatibility with hypervisors was important, and Nimble is compatible with all of them.

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RD
Consulting Engineer at Ameren Corporation

One of the sales guys was aggressive and he met with me several times. We were, frankly, very impressed and very surprised. He said, "How about if you try it out?" and I said, "Yes." It was try-before-you-buy, and it worked.

Previously, we had some HPE P4500 LeftHand network devices which were getting old. We switched because needed a hardware refresh and more capacity.

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

We came from a spinning SAN to hybrid SAN to all-flash. We just followed that path. 

We moved to all-flash because we were pushing the latency of the hybrid so far it was unusable.

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

We were using a different storage solution and we weren't getting the speed that we needed out of it for some of our applications. We couldn't run an SQL server on our old one. It was just too slow. We looked into 3PAR , because at the time, Nimble was not yet bought out. We looked into 3PAR , we looked into some of the bigger ones and decided that Nimble gave just as good performance for a much lower cost point.

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

We previously used a different product. The switch was made to gain a less-complex design for setup and administration.

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

We are a provider of solutions. We will place technologies where they fit.

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

We used to use a different storage vendor. The two main reasons we changed were the terrible levels of support we received from the previous company and the arrays' performance. The support was important because once, when we had an issue with an array, we had a six-hour outage and the issue prevented DR as well as production environments working. The support was terrible, and it took months to finally resolve the issue.

Performance-wise, the arrays we had were simply not sufficient for our growing environment and the needs of our newer larger clients coming into our infrastructure. This, coupled with the management overhead required to simply keep the plates spinning on these arrays, prompted us to find a more-reliable, better-performing partner with a better support ethos.

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

We had and EMC SAN in the past which took up a lot of space and required regular maintenance from a service technician including several downtimes.

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

Yes, the switch was made to gain a less complex design with regards to setup and administration.

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

We needed additional capacity and our old SAN solution was seven years old, at about end-of-life. We had been using a Dell Compellent, and it wasn't really suited for our type of workload.

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CC
Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at TAL

I had capacity issues, and my scale-out of existing solutions was not viable, so I had to look for something new. I was forced into a Nimble purchase through an acquisition that we made, so I became familiar with the product and then decided to expand the product.

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it_user683190 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator ll at Calabrio

We knew we needed a new solution because we needed something for restored backup.

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it_user527265 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect at JWS Consult

This particular environment was all standalone servers and storage previously. Decision was made to move to shared storage to support movement from standalone servers to a VMware cluster on Cisco UCS blades.

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it_user561390 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes and because of the performance and abilities of the array such as encryption without purchasing new hardware.

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it_user560223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Systems Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
  • We had Hitachi AMS2100 SANs.
  • The CS210 reduced the required rack size from 12 U to 3 U for more than double the performance.
  • Price was competitive with Hitachi’s and other solutions providing similar performance, when including all licences and maintenance over a 3 years period.
  • Much easier to set up and manage than all our previous SANs.
  • Improved monitoring, and no extra costs for providing this.
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RM
Sr VP Dep Director of IT at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It was actually one of the bleeding edge technologies we reviewed over the legacy stack that we were dealing with traditionally. We used EMC in the past from a spindle and, at that point, we didn't feel EMC was adequate to fulfill our needs. So we looked at Nimble from price and technology points of view and it met everything, all of our reviews and all of our requirements.

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it_user543450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Law Firm

We were using a different solution. I was visiting a specific software house conference (the software that we were using then), they had Nimble there and I was really interested; I asked them questions and then, eventually, it turned out into a project.

While selecting a vendor, I want to be sure that we are getting good value for money and having good performance; for me, that's the main priority.

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

Previously, we used Dell.

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

We used EMC Celerra. We switched due to the complexity of volume management and performance.

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

We had local SSD, PowerVault MD3200, and EqualLogic arrays. We were not happy with EqualLogic’s performance and scale, so we consolidated it all into Nimble.

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

I previously used a different solution, and I switched to Nimble because of its cost effectiveness, its ease of use and it is very manageable. Nimble simplified everything for me.

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

EMC CX4s. Better performance, better cost, reduce rack space/cooling/power. We reduced our disk latency from 12-15ms to 1-2ms.

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Chris Childerhose - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at ThinkON

Previously used Dell EqualLogic arrays but they were end of life.

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Luciano Batalha - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at EVONICEVONIC

I am also using HPE 3PAR.

I also have experience with HPE Primera, which is a better product. It's a merge of 3PAR and Nimble and it's a more stable storage solution.

If I were comparing a group of products then I would rate StorageWorks MSA a five, Nimble a seven, 3PAR an eight, Primera a nine, and StorageWorks XP a ten.

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

We replaced 3PAR with Nimble.

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it_user684969 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at Applies Computer Technologies

We have a slew of HPE products. Since we were a partner with Nimble prior to the acquisition, it was natural for us to use and sell their products.

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CY
Vice President Tech Operations at Ten-X, LLC

We used to use Sentry and we switched to Nimble. It was a Greenfield solution. When choosing a solution for storage venues, which is what I do now, the main elements have to be reliability and support. This is our game. Nimble is now a part of HPE and they just beat out the others.

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

Yes, Dell EqualLogic. Cost per IO and Gig. Stability.

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

We used NetApp before, Nimble was a better architecture for us and we receive better support than with the NetApp support team

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

We used to push Dell/Equallogic stuff, but the limited performance and lack of value caused us to look elsewhere.

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

At one point, we used NetApp. We found it expensive, especially with the storage overhead required. The Nimble product was significantly less expensive and management was simpler.

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

Previously, we used Compellent, but HPE Nimble Storage's performance is far better and faster. We also use Pure Storage in addition to HPE Nimble Storage as it provides more stable, faster performance and active storage on two different sides.

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JA
VP - Engineering Operations at WPG Consulting

I'm also familiar with EqualLogic.

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

We were on NetApp previously. It was too cumbersome to manage. Their support was atrocious, and they were really expensive.

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

We used NetApp. Nimble Storage is a better block storage than NetApp on every single parameter.

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

Yes, we were using both older equipment (HPE EVA4400) and newer equipment (HPE 3PAR). The EVA4400 is now decommissioned, thanks to our Nimble array. Greater performance and capacity are the two main reasons that we switched to Nimble.

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it_user283428 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer with 51-200 employees

Prior to this, we were using storage on our servers.

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

We were still using 3PAR storage before we had EVA Storage System. We are a very loyal HPE customer for many, many years, for ourselves and also as a vendor. We have used HPE storage for ourselves for 25 years.

We switched to Nimble Storage because of InfoSight. You can say 3PAR also had InfoSight, but it was not the same quality. It's better right now. And for us, because we have customer systems in our infrastructure, it's very important to have very high availability in our systems. We have to get SLAs, the service-level agreements.

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NW
HPE Product Manager at MAS Egypt

We also work with HPE Primera.

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

The storage that we had was going out of support. We previously used mostly HPE 3PAR. We switched to Nimble mostly because it was simpler to administer. Also, the scale that we needed in Nimble was probably better suited for us than the 3PAR systems.

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

We previously used EMC. Storage administration was a nightmare in regards to LUN changes.

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JC
Infrastructure and IT Support Coordinator with 201-500 employees

Previous solution had many licenses for each feature, with high OPEX and manage complexity.

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

Previous to this product we just used normal three-tier storage, for example, HPE, MSA, Lenovo, and so on.

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it_user560238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualisation/SAN Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • NetApp, EMC, Dell EqualLogic.
  • NetApp relies on lots of disk and was a nightmare to keep up to date. Updating was a major project when it happened.
  • NetApp? To complicated and the extras like snap manager for Exchange very expensive. The others? Not much experience of EMC or EqualLogic.
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TN
Information Technology Operations Manager at Weber Metals

The only other product that I have experience with is Dell Compellent.

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

We had multiple storage solutions that simply got to their EOL.

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

Yes, switched for scalability and cost effectiveness of data storage/protection.

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

I have worked with other similar solutions and I find that there are no big differences between them.

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

We were using EMC 5200. We switched because there was a forklift upgrade to EMC 5300 that cost almost three times as much compared to Nimble.

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

Yes, the decision was made before I joined the company, however, I believe it was due to pricing and the shift of our strategy.

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

We did, and we switched due to the latency, technology, and cost.

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

The previous solution was very complex.

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

This was a new project where we needed a storage solution and we evaluated Nimble among others and we decided to go with Nimble.

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it_user701493 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Specialst at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Previously used EMC VPLEX, VNX , XtremIO , IBM DS8800, and Storwize.

We switched because traditional SAN solutions are outdated and inefficient.

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Buyer's Guide
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.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.