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HPE Nimble Storage pros and cons

Vendor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

4.5 out of 5

120 reviews
99% willing to recommend

4,423 followers

Pros & Cons summary

HPE Nimble Storage offers data mirroring, NVMe flash storage, and the InfoSight platform which utilizes predictive analytics and machine learning. Features like high availability, fast deployment, deduplication, and compression enhance storage management. Integration with VMware, storage snapshots, and predictive analytics boost security and resilience. However, scalability and cost should be improved, and the product could benefit from an active-active controller and NAS-based storage.

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PROS

HPE Nimble Storage features quick and straightforward deployment.

Data mirroring and Block-level backups ensure reliable data recovery and redundancy.

The deduplication, compression, and NVMe flash storage optimize storage efficiency and performance.

InfoSight platform offers predictive analytics, proactive support, and effective fault management, improving overall reliability.

Scalability of HPE Nimble Storage is straightforward, enhancing its adaptability to growing business needs.

CONS

Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved.

HPE Nimble Storage requires a higher availability.

The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with.

There is no active-active controller, which means that only one controller can be online at a time.

HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides.

HPE Nimble Storage Pros review quotes

MB

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

Jun 25, 2019

The stability is awesome. The product has always been reliable. It has been 100 percent up. We have never had any downtime with it. Even if a controller fails due to our firmware or whatever, it rolls over to the second one and keeps us running.

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

Jun 25, 2019

We use a platform as a service and have multiple application vendors who comprise that platform. There are moments when those application vendors put the blame on us. By working in InfoSight, I am able to say, "No, it is not us." I can actually provide proof, either by using screenshots or through reporting.

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JT

Senior Network Administrator at a university with 201-500 employees

Jun 25, 2019

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.

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

Jun 13, 2017

InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far.

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Vice President Tech Operations at Ten-X, LLC

Jun 20, 2018

Our upgrades are seamless. Whether we're adding storage, or upgrading the software, we don't take an outage for those upgrades.

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

Dec 22, 2021

The most valuable feature is the management of Nimble Storage, InfoSight. This is like a cloud. That's really a very nice feature. I think that's the only reason to buy Nimble Storage.

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Ajit Pratap Kundan

PreSales Lead- Government & Defense at Accops Systems Pvt Ltd

Nov 10, 2023

If a ransomware or enterprise-level attack happens, my infrastructure remains totally secure. If any virtual machine gets damaged or collapses, we have built a backup solution, which will take a minute to restore the same version of HPE Nimble Storage in our company.

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It director at Pratt Regional Medical Center Corporation

Jun 25, 2018

I use InfoSight quite a bit. It works well. It allows you to get some insight into what's happening in your environment immediately, instead of having to send things off and having them analyzed and sent back to you.

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reviewer1130226

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

Jun 25, 2019

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.

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AS

Operations Manager at Nuvollo Corp.

Jun 25, 2019

We get storage access without the need for more human monitoring of those resources.

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HPE Nimble Storage Cons review quotes

MB

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

Jun 25, 2019

I would like deduplication by default on all the volumes. I still don't understand (or know why) dedupe isn't enabled for the templates out-of-the-box. We have to go in and manually enable it each and every time.

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

Jun 25, 2019

I wish they would put the InfoSight page back the way it was. I got in it for the first time about two years ago, and it looked the same for about a year and a half. Then, about six months ago, it changed. There are different options now. I can still get to where I need to go, but it feels like it takes longer, where before it didn't. Also, I felt like I had a lot more options before. I have to do a lot more to digging now to get to where I need to go. I just wish they had their old page back.

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JT

Senior Network Administrator at a university with 201-500 employees

Jun 25, 2019

I would like to see the network portion of the product improve, especially with some of the things which are coming out from Aruba and HPE. Both are innovating more of an automated networking. I would like to see our Nimble meld into that and do some automated networking.

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

Jun 13, 2017

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.

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Vice President Tech Operations at Ten-X, LLC

Jun 20, 2018

The only thing that I can really compare Nimble to is all-flash because, right now, Nimble is a hybrid solution. I would like to see them come out with an all-flash alternative.

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

Dec 22, 2021

A feature that would be a nice addition to the next release would be a filer option. A filer option so that you could connect the sim or NFS or chips like NetApp does for NAS functionality.

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Ajit Pratap Kundan

PreSales Lead- Government & Defense at Accops Systems Pvt Ltd

Nov 10, 2023

HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides.

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It director at Pratt Regional Medical Center Corporation

Jun 25, 2018

The only thing I'm really looking for in my next array is some hyperconverged, so if they had something in that space... But I know they have SimpliVity so that is probably not going to happen.

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reviewer1130226

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

Jun 25, 2019

I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution.

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AS

Operations Manager at Nuvollo Corp.

Jun 25, 2019

The large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks.

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