We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"InfoSight is helpful because it is proactive support."
"It dynamically understands what data is being stored on it and where to store it, because they have got a flash array at the front, then obviously the standard style of storage at the back."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"I really like the form factor, which is nice and compact and small."
"Nimble's support is awesome and one of the best. You sort of get a Tier 3 plus guy every time that you call, no matter if it is a Tier 0 issue. This is super helpful in case we ever have problems."
"The storage capacity efficiency is phenomenal. It is off the charts in comparison to the compression ratios that we got before. We are able to save a lot more to the device."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"The hardware and software of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy for us to use."
"We use it for our VDI environment, and have not had any complaints with it."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance of the database access."
"The stability, speed, and reliability are the solution's best features. The information is also very secure."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"Every time I think of something that needs to improve, they're one step ahead, which I love. The only area I wish to see improve, I believe is coming, is in the FlashBlade product. Blade implementation fell short on a few of the services."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"I really would like to see synchronous replication. This is something that when we have multiple arrays in our environment and being able to do something like a zero RPO."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"Nimble Storage could increase its flexibility by adding more protocol options. Nimble mainly uses fibre channel protocols, whereas many other storage arrays support fibre channel, iCSI, and NFS protocols."
"HPE Nimble Storage should improve its latency. It is expensive."
"There are customers who want to do some different things with the Microsoft Resilient File System. There are some customers who want to do different types of connectivity. I do not know if I would call that an improvement, necessarily, because if you want that, you should get a different product."
"I'd like to see more granular quality of service rules. Currently, I think currently there's not much room for maximum IOPS, but there's not an option for minimum IOPS for a given volume."
"As far as the manageability, being able to port between the two and have to do less training in-house from a customer point of view, that would be the part to improve."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate data between All Flash and other NetApp storage systems."
"It needs a better management tool."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
"I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T"
"Better integration with other brands is important so we would like to see it easier to integrate."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera and VMware vSAN, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and IBM FlashSystem. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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