Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement. In future releases, HPE can add some advanced features like those we can see on some HP devices like Aruba controllers. They have two modes, although it is still an administration and network-based mode, it has two modes, one enhanced and one basic. Basic, which could be used as a wizard. Most likely to be like a wizard for quick deployment and the advanced to permit more advanced adjustments. So, I would like to see a similar feature in HPE.
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's firmware is very tough to get. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently. It is also difficult to upgrade the solution as compared to its competitors. We are facing a very tough situation with HPE Nimble Storage dHCI. The solution’s stability and encryption could be improved.
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement.
The disadvantage is we don't have granular upgrade capabilities. For dHCI, there are some prerequisites, so we cannot pitch the solution to just any customer. They should have some network ready. For example, they should have specific network switches compatible with Nimble dHCI. Otherwise, we have to include those switches in the solution, which will make the solution more expensive. Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions. The deployment should be much simpler.
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
MSP
2020-12-03T07:46:04Z
Dec 3, 2020
Nimble It's only available using iSCSI — Nimble can run iSCSI or Fiber Channel. Although iSCSI is cheaper, from a performance perspective, if you've got a really high-performance need, then you need Fiber Channel. Not to get too technical, but people tend to think that adding more ports gives you that much more bandwidth — that's not true. Every stream must be dedicated to a port. You could actually do port saturation and not use some of your ports that you just dedicated to your storage. It's not as mature as Fiber Channel — no one is. Fiber Channel is more expensive, but if high-performance is what you seek, then you need Fiber Channel. I hope that they bring that forward. They're doing all kinds of leaps and bounds with the new Nimble. I really love where they're going, but I think Fiber Channel should be on the docket for dHCI. It would be nice if they just provided a simple, easy to read matrix (white paper) on the different models. Today, it's a little convoluted. It's a little hard to read. You have to actually show it to a customer and explain it to them. I shouldn't have to explain it to them. It should be very simple: here are your options, here's your expansion, here's how much storage you get with that, etc. The information is kind of there, but it's just, it's ugly. I don't mean to call anyone's baby ugly, but they need to improve that datasheet. That would be my pet peeve with them. Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick. They shouldn't have to have us sit down with them and explain to them why. They should be able to look at this and say, "Oh, okay. I understand where I need to be. I don't need a decoder to figure it out." That and the fiber channel are my pet peeves. The documentation needs to be improved — the quick specs are just horrible. I think there could be more automation capabilities; however, I think they're moving in this direction. More automation to open and close tickets, to get those service tickets open. They've done a lot in that area and I think that they again should focus on introducing more somewhere down the road.
Solutions Architect Data Center Servers and Storage at Tecnologia informatica
Reseller
2022-01-27T16:14:53Z
Jan 27, 2022
This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged. In a future release, I would like to add something similar to support or the capability to predict any kind of failure based on the software with the cloud, or management support from the wholesale. HPE has always the control to know what could happen and resolve these situations before they fail or close.
Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better. And to my understanding, Nimble Storage is a block storage system. You need to add another server for file services. I think it would be helpful to have other forms of storage included with Nimble Storage.
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement.
Sales Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Reseller
2021-10-28T17:13:28Z
Oct 28, 2021
The user interface is not as good or easy as the competition, for example, Nutanix. That's what we do find. The initial setup is a little bit complicated. We'd like to see file sharing capability, for file shares, to be available and much larger.
Enterprise Administrator at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2021-09-07T21:19:05Z
Sep 7, 2021
It's still kind of a new solution. I know when I purchased it, it really wasn't ready for prime time as I had to go through at least five or six deployments before it actually stuck. We were having a lot of issues. As far as where I'm at with it right now, I can't really complain. They're finally bringing it together where it can do updates through their one menu interface for the Nimble and that updates everything, the ESX hosts, the vCenter, it does all that for you. They've gotten better. The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot. That's about the only problem right now. The only thing I would like, and this may be more on the VMware side, however, going back to that SQL issue, I would like to be able to maybe have more granular control over my IO channels on my server. If I needed to troubleshoot why one server, one drive in a server, which is virtual, is having high latency, I should be able to go in and troubleshoot that specifically without having to go through and try to look at a ton of graphs. That's probably the only thing - just the granularity of it. The reporting on Nimble to Nimble replication could be a little bit better
They should include integration to the cloud like S3 bucket or the archiving part. The vehicle would be the backup solution. It would allow us to move some older, rarely used data to cloud.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure refers to a system where numerous integrated technologies can be managed within a single system, through one main channel. Typically software-centric, the architecture tightly integrates storage, networking, and virtual machines.
It can be made cheaper.
Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement. In future releases, HPE can add some advanced features like those we can see on some HP devices like Aruba controllers. They have two modes, although it is still an administration and network-based mode, it has two modes, one enhanced and one basic. Basic, which could be used as a wizard. Most likely to be like a wizard for quick deployment and the advanced to permit more advanced adjustments. So, I would like to see a similar feature in HPE.
File storage protocol is not supported.
The product's active controller feature needs improvement.
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's firmware is very tough to get. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently. It is also difficult to upgrade the solution as compared to its competitors. We are facing a very tough situation with HPE Nimble Storage dHCI. The solution’s stability and encryption could be improved.
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement.
The disadvantage is we don't have granular upgrade capabilities. For dHCI, there are some prerequisites, so we cannot pitch the solution to just any customer. They should have some network ready. For example, they should have specific network switches compatible with Nimble dHCI. Otherwise, we have to include those switches in the solution, which will make the solution more expensive. Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions. The deployment should be much simpler.
I'm not sure if there are features lacking.
Nimble It's only available using iSCSI — Nimble can run iSCSI or Fiber Channel. Although iSCSI is cheaper, from a performance perspective, if you've got a really high-performance need, then you need Fiber Channel. Not to get too technical, but people tend to think that adding more ports gives you that much more bandwidth — that's not true. Every stream must be dedicated to a port. You could actually do port saturation and not use some of your ports that you just dedicated to your storage. It's not as mature as Fiber Channel — no one is. Fiber Channel is more expensive, but if high-performance is what you seek, then you need Fiber Channel. I hope that they bring that forward. They're doing all kinds of leaps and bounds with the new Nimble. I really love where they're going, but I think Fiber Channel should be on the docket for dHCI. It would be nice if they just provided a simple, easy to read matrix (white paper) on the different models. Today, it's a little convoluted. It's a little hard to read. You have to actually show it to a customer and explain it to them. I shouldn't have to explain it to them. It should be very simple: here are your options, here's your expansion, here's how much storage you get with that, etc. The information is kind of there, but it's just, it's ugly. I don't mean to call anyone's baby ugly, but they need to improve that datasheet. That would be my pet peeve with them. Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick. They shouldn't have to have us sit down with them and explain to them why. They should be able to look at this and say, "Oh, okay. I understand where I need to be. I don't need a decoder to figure it out." That and the fiber channel are my pet peeves. The documentation needs to be improved — the quick specs are just horrible. I think there could be more automation capabilities; however, I think they're moving in this direction. More automation to open and close tickets, to get those service tickets open. They've done a lot in that area and I think that they again should focus on introducing more somewhere down the road.
This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged. In a future release, I would like to add something similar to support or the capability to predict any kind of failure based on the software with the cloud, or management support from the wholesale. HPE has always the control to know what could happen and resolve these situations before they fail or close.
Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better. And to my understanding, Nimble Storage is a block storage system. You need to add another server for file services. I think it would be helpful to have other forms of storage included with Nimble Storage.
HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement.
The user interface is not as good or easy as the competition, for example, Nutanix. That's what we do find. The initial setup is a little bit complicated. We'd like to see file sharing capability, for file shares, to be available and much larger.
It's still kind of a new solution. I know when I purchased it, it really wasn't ready for prime time as I had to go through at least five or six deployments before it actually stuck. We were having a lot of issues. As far as where I'm at with it right now, I can't really complain. They're finally bringing it together where it can do updates through their one menu interface for the Nimble and that updates everything, the ESX hosts, the vCenter, it does all that for you. They've gotten better. The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot. That's about the only problem right now. The only thing I would like, and this may be more on the VMware side, however, going back to that SQL issue, I would like to be able to maybe have more granular control over my IO channels on my server. If I needed to troubleshoot why one server, one drive in a server, which is virtual, is having high latency, I should be able to go in and troubleshoot that specifically without having to go through and try to look at a ton of graphs. That's probably the only thing - just the granularity of it. The reporting on Nimble to Nimble replication could be a little bit better
They should include integration to the cloud like S3 bucket or the archiving part. The vehicle would be the backup solution. It would allow us to move some older, rarely used data to cloud.
I would like to see more compatibility with other vendors.