HPE Nimble Storage Reviews

• Ease-of-use: You don't have to be a storage expert to navigate and set up the product.
• Reliability: If there are any issues with the product, their support team calls me before I even notice that there is an issue. They're very proactive.

With our previous storage product, I would probably spend 2-4 hours a week managing it, logging, checking on things, and fixing issues. Since we've switched to Nimble, I probably spend an hour a month doing various maintenance tests. It has greatly reduced the amount of handling that our storage requires.

Third-party integrations: A lot of products tend to come out and support NetApp, EMC, and various other storage managers. Nimble tends to be lagging behind in that space, and it's not completely their fault, but I think they could do a better job pushing for those integrations with various third-party products.

We have used the solution for a little over two years.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We have not encountered any scalability issues, as it's very scalable.

The level of technical support is 10/10.

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

The setup was the easiest thing I've ever done in my life. We had it unboxed, uncrated, racked, and connected to VMware in probably two hours, tops.

Their pricing window was more straightforward than in traditional storage. They have basically guaranteed maintenance pricing. In years four, five, six, and beyond, they don't force you to upgrade like some of the other vendors.

The license is straightforward and it's all inclusive. There's no need to buy different license keys to get access to certain features. What you pay for, and you pay one price, you get it all.

We looked at everybody on the market.

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.

The SSD caching and the snapshots within the array are unlike any other product I've ever worked with. Restoring VM's is VERY simple.

The SSD caching ensures VM performance is top notch 24/7 regardless of how much I/O the VM requires.

I'd love to be able to put larger spindles into the unit, but I get that that is how they make their money, by selling you a larger unit.

I've used it for five years.

We ran into some blue screen issues when using Hyper-V, however, with VMware it works perfectly.

None so far.

It's hard for Nimble to compare with the largest EMC stuff, but, I'm not entirely sure that they're after that segment of EMC's market.

It's top notch.

It's top notch.

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

The setup is by far the most straightforward setup I have ever worked with in the SAN space.

My first unit was a demo unit that we used internally and setup on our own. Now we're a reseller of Nimble.

In terms of value, it's immediate. All VM's instantly noticed a drastic performance increase over the old Dell stuff.

From one perspective they're pricey for what the hardware/software is, but they're definitely worth it if you're in a high IOPS environment. In fact they're a very cost effective solution when pinned against the competitors.

Everything from NetApp, EMC, Dell/Equallogic, and even QNAP. It's really no contest when you learn about the architecture in detail.

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

Our customers use the solution for cyber security.

The solution provides all the essential features for various project requirements.

They should improve the solution's pricing.

It is a stable solution.

The solution is scalable. We have more than 100 customers using the solution.

The solution's technical support is good. Although, we face challenges with hardware delivery.

The solution's initial setup is straightforward. But its complexity depends on specific requirements. The deployment process takes three months to complete.

The solution is more expensive than Dell Unity. We have purchased a yearly license for it. The additional costs depend upon the use cases.

I rate the solution as a seven.

I use HPE Nimble Storage for Hyper-V clusters. I'm using the latest OS and the latest firmware. I keep them updated.

It keeps my machines up and running. For deduplications, it's a pretty good machine.

Deduplication is probably the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up. It's very stable, and it has got great deduplication, especially for hypervisor users.

There should be faster interfaces.

It would be nice if you could use something other than the proprietary rights on it.

I've been using HPE Nimble Storage for about a year and a half.

I'd rate it a ten out of ten in terms of stability. I haven't had any issues.

I'd rate it a ten out of ten in terms of scalability.

I'd rate them an eight out of ten.

Positive

It was easy, but I've been doing it for twenty years. I'm not worried about that. 

We have absolutely seen an ROI.

Its price is a little higher.

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

We are using HPE Nimble Storage of backing up our data.

HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good.

The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side.

Replication reporting is a bit difficult to figure out and could improve in the future. It would be helpful if they had a breakdown detailed report that one could provide to upper management.

I have been using HPE Nimble Storage for approximately 

The support is very good at being proactive in helping us resolve issues. They have been better than most other competitors in this area.

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

I rate HPE Nimble Storage a nine out of ten.

The solution is used for a storage area network(SAN) that we store files and backups on.

The SAN has been great, it has been a big help.

Some of the beneficial features I have found are the Block-level backups, the interface is easy to use, backups work well and the portal is functional.

We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at other options. If there is a solution that could combine Azure backup and interconnect it with storage on-premises and on the cloud, this would be great. This solution could already exist by HP, I have not done the research yet or know what the process looks like.

I have been using the solution for three years.

I had no problems with stability.

Scalability is something we are looking into with HA and failover features at other locations. This is part of that project we are working on. I do not know right now exactly how scalable the solution is but I might know soon.

Our whole company SAN, uses the solution of approximately 700 employees.

The solution is a little pricey compared to others on the market.

I rate HPE Nimble Storage a nine out of ten.

The Nimble solution gives us hybrid storage at an affordable cost. We use it in our corporate IT environment. It's fast relatively easy to implement.

All-flash arrays.

The stability is great. I don't think we've had a failure since we've had it.

It's much easier. We compared it to Sentry, where we had to do forty-two upgrades for more space. Nimble just keeps letting us add arrays over and over.

We have used technical support and they are very good.

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.

I was involved in the setup and it was very fast.

The price is excellent.

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.

• The product is easy and quick to implement
• Licensing is easy to understand and doesn’t require a license for each feature that they offer
• SSD for cache
• Great technical support
• Monitoring of components and quick replacements if they fail
• Can update firmware and OS without taking SAN offline

The organization is now able to take advantage of the benefits offered by virtualization such as vMotion. The storage is now able to support the required IOPs for all of our applications.

I haven't come across any so far.

I've used it for 10 months.

No issues encountered.

The product has been extremely stable so far.

We have not yet had the need to scale.

10/10.

10/10.

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

It was very straightforward. The initial setup can be completed in less than hour as long as all of the network configurations have been completed.

It was in-house.

Price is comparable to other vendors’ products in the same class. The licensing is extremely easy to understand compared to some of the other vendors. Nimble doesn’t require separate licenses for each feature that they offer.

• EMC
• EqualLogic
• NetApp

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