HPE Nimble Storage Reviews

We have a server that needs a faster distribution solution, and we use Nimble for its storage.

The replay and IOPS work well. It's user-friendly, and we're satisfied with it. 

The dashboard can be improved. I would like to see more details on the dashboard in the next release.

I have been using HPE Nimble Storage for about three years.

HPE Nimble Storage is stable. All the drives are functioning well so far, and you only have to do maintenance on a yearly basis.

The support response time is good.

The initial setup was straightforward. We were able to implement it quite quickly.

HPE Nimble Storage didn't require a license at the time.

I would recommend HPE Nimble Storage to potential users.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give HPE Nimble Storage a nine.

Flexible scaling for future-proof and Nimble InfoSight, easy and clear to use reporting portal.

• Centralize storage location for data and virtualized servers.
• Minimum experiences with downtime.
• Data compression ratio seems reasonable comparing to claims.

Pricing.

4-5 years.

Generally speaking, no. However, just yesterday we experienced a volume failure, took down an essential production server. Still in the middle of investigation, will log a case with Nimble soon.

We are currently in the stage of planning to scale up, from what we were promised it should be trouble free.

I’ve yet dealt with technical support which is a good sign. The rep from Nimble and Engineers were helpful when I had question in regards of our scaling up project.

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

Seems to be competitive and reasonable, however, with industry shifting focus onto cloud platform, many small-midsize businesses are limited to what we are offered.

We previously had Dell EqualLogic It was considered when it’s time for renewal.

Keep future needs in mind. Data might grow at a rate that surprises you.

• Scale up
• Scale out
• Compression
• Analytics

• Oracle DB
• ETL
• DWH
• indexing

I have a long list that I have shared with Nimble development team and am working with them on this.

I've been using it for four months.

There were some problems.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

They're great. Just amazing.

It depends, but we have a personal route to the right personnel.

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

It's very simple but requires you to be accurate, but this is how it is for any product..

We did it in-house.

It's huge.

This was large POC track and the others were -

• Cisco Imperva
• Kaminario
• NetApp EF
• Pure Storage
• EMC XtremIO

Plan, plan, plan, plan and plan again.

We will be using this solution for virtualizing specific workloads that we have.

The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length. It had a prolonged length to standard servers, which made it slightly challenging to get it installed and we had to switch racks around.

I have been using HPE Nimble Storage for 20 days.

We are still in the installation phase, but will probably be using the latest version.

In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable.

From what we have investigated, it's pretty scalable. 

The preliminary test shows that it does what we want it to do. We will continue using this solution in the future.

We have approximately 20 users in our organization.

We have not contacted the technical support yet.

We have a team of five to maintain this product.

We had an HPE engineer install this solution. We purchased the installation package with it.

I would classify it as an expensive product. It's a high-end product.

It's quite expensive, but it's what you would expect from a storage box.

We evaluated Pure Storage FlashArray and IBM Storwize, which is now called IBM Flash Array.

This is a solution that I would recommend to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate HPE Nimble Storage a seven out of ten.

The single feature that is valuable is InfoSight and the visibility it gives us for our capacity planning.

It has allowed us to enhance the recovery and deployment of our infrastructure.

It would be beneficial for Nimble to have an NVVM and/or an all-flash solution.

Currently Nimble’s All Flash solution is SSD disk based. Nimble should investigate in having their All Flash Solution with NVM Ram (similar to HP) or memory storage similar to Violin Storage.

I have used Nimble Storage for four years.

We have not had issues with stability.

The issue with scalability is that I can’t expand to more than six arrays with one controller.

I give technical support 4.5/5.

The previous solution was very complex.

I would like to suggest a price reduction seeing that there are similar products in the market. The licensing should not be touched.

We looked at HPE 3PAR and Dell EMC.

If you don’t have a storage team, this product is right for you.

Easy to configure and view information of the system's health.

We do not need a dedicated staff member to handle the system we deploy. A regular infrastructure person that attends the Nimble training course will be able to handle the system.

Less manpower overhead to manage the storage.

Scalability, see below.

The company has been using Nimble Storage for three years.

We haven't had any issues.

We're not able to increase space on a small scale, each increase is pretty big.

Good and responsive.

Simple, it can be setup and ready to use within the same business day of delivery.

Pricing is decent.

It depends on your infrastructure specialist, the very technically advanced specialists will prefer something that is not so user friendly. They would prefer more configuration options where only people with the technical know-how will be able to look after the system. Nimble is very easy to work with. Simple technical skilled personnel will be able to handle the system.

It provides good performance, ease of use and ease of administration. The usage statistics, the cloud and their info site are all very good.

It's easier to administer than other storage solutions so that gives us agility to implement storage services.

Let's see, well you already have the old flash, I felt that was missing but, I don't know. It's a very good solution but the price is not the best, probably better pricing would be good but yes, it's a good solution.

We didn't encounter any issues with stability. It's good, very stable.

I haven't had the need to scale it, but it has good scalability.

Now that I remember I didn't use the technical support.

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

I wasn't involved in the initial set up.

We evaluated some others but I'd rather not say which vendors. The features of the product, stability, performance, support and cost are important to us.

Try the solution, it's pretty straightforward to use and very easy to manage.

All features.

• Predictive performance
• 1/4 of a data center footprint than traditional SAN
• Predictive and flexible capacity/performance scaling
• Box license, unlimited snapshots/replications
• Better overview/monitoring/transparency in infrastructure
• Interoperability with other infrastructure elements

Further improvements on existing features, always.

Approximately one year.

No.

No.

Nimble technical support is only level 3, best support experienced compared to any other SAN platforms.

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

We switched because traditional SAN solutions are outdated and inefficient.

Very easy to set up, approximately 10 mins per system.

I strongly recommend everybody switching from traditional capacity-licensing models, to Box-license.

HPE 3PAR, Tintri, EMC VNX, and EMC XtremIO.

Try it.