We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and HPE Nimble Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."Pure Storage FlashArray has significantly improved our data center performance. It handles high workloads efficiently, providing better performance in the environment. With increased storage capacity, it has led to improved overall system performance. The tool's technology is a standout feature. It has helped me reduce storage costs by 15 percent."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"It's actually very stable"
"It simplifies storage."
"Technical support is good."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"The interaction with VMware is most valuable."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"They have really thought through their solution. They've covered everything."
"I really like the form factor, which is nice and compact and small."
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"InfoSight. It's AI for the data center. It's very easy, it does a lot of the work for the customer... InfoSight and the whole system, help them to deal with troubleshooting."
"The capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"The price should be lower."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"We face challenges with hardware delivery."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"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."
"The amount of firmware updates released seem excessive."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"We are doing a hybrid and are moving some machines to Microsoft Azure to run in hybrid mode. We are checking the availability of extra software-defined storage so that we can configure it."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem.
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