HPE Nimble Storage vs Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] comparison

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Everpure FlashArray

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Sowjanya MV

Technical Lead at Wipro Limited

Has improved performance for mission-critical workloads and enabled seamless non-disruptive upgrades

The availability is 99.99%, which is the main factor any customer would need because their data should be available whenever they want to access it. This is one main critical thing. It is very easy to upgrade since Pure Storage FlashArray handles it well. Everything is non-disruptive now; previously, there were forklift shifts, but now that is not the case. Pure Storage FlashArray says no to forklift upgrades. Usually hardware requires downtime, but Pure Storage FlashArray has improved their footprint so that they are not asking for downtime; everything is just a non-disruptive activity, which is why customers are more inclined towards Pure Storage FlashArray. Customers want more of the models in their environment due to the performance they are giving, and everything is in one Pure1 Array console where we can view all the models on one page or just an orchestration tool. You don't miss anything; you have replication, notifications about replication, and details about which host groups replication is happening in and if that replication is successful or failed. On a daily basis, our purpose is to create volumes for infrastructure; our daily activities include creating volumes and mapping them to the host, doing any migrations from a VM, clearing the data stores, and carving the volumes to those VMs. One key factor is the data compression with a ratio of 5:1, focusing on space efficiency, inline deduplication, and the compression Pure Storage FlashArray works on; that is a major factor we can suggest to any customer. Analytical capabilities are crucial. Daily, we check the throughput and consumption, and Pure Storage FlashArray provides predictions for one year regarding usage. This prediction helps plan updates well ahead. For support, we just raise a case, and they follow up and get it done. There is also AI readiness, but with the model R2, we don't have much of that AI readiness. For others, we do have AI readiness that predicts capacity based on daily or monthly trends, enabling us to analyze how much space we need or if we need to expand the disk shelf. From an operational point of view, a good feature is that if you accidentally delete a volume, it will be retained in the destroyed state for the next twenty-four hours, which is not the same with any other vendor. I have worked in this storage domain for the past fifteen years, and this option is remarkable, benefiting any L1 or L2 engineer. Additionally, from a compliance perspective, Pure Storage FlashArray has REST APIs enabled. I have not explored automation much, but from a security standpoint, it is strong with encryption data. If you want to automate, you can easily integrate with all clouds and explore Pure Cloud for scheduling workloads, including volume creation. Customers find benefit in Pure Storage FlashArray's single management pane of glass due to the dual controller and active-active setup. If one of the controllers goes down, all workloads automatically shift to the other controller, ensuring their data is safe and accessible at all times. This is a highlighted feature that any customer desires because their data should always be accessible. For SAN workloads, we use Pure Storage FlashArray because for SAN FC fiber channel, we don't use it; we use NetApp for NAS activities. We have clearly split this, so SAN is for mission-critical applications, while network-attached storage handles file systems. This architecture helps us maximize the benefit from Pure Storage FlashArray due to the significant workloads from this giant retail client. From a footprint and energy consumption perspective, you can see energy consumption from the Pure1 storage portal on a daily basis, and it is very compact. The three models we use consume only three units, which is quite low. From a footprint and data center perspective, it doesn't occupy much space. As everything moves to cloud, there are requirements to avoid excess spending on data centers, and Pure Storage FlashArray is efficient in energy consumption and is environmentally friendly.

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it_user1205586

Chief Solutions Architect at Science Applications International Corporation

Good price-performance ratio, provides simplified provisioning and management

We use this solution for provisioning and management The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption. The exterior display needs to be improved. Sorry, I like the blue lights the competition has, but maybe we can see green led lights…

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reviewer752799

Technical Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Cloud management improves problem identification and future performance forecasting

My official job title is Technical Manager. I never sell the T-Series PowerEdge for Tower servers; I just sell the rack. I am familiar with OpenManage and we have been implementing it for the customer, but I am not familiar with Dell CloudIQ for infrastructure monitoring or SharePlex. I know about OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, but we don't have a customer that is using this. I don't know much about Flash Optimized Architecture, but my customer is using both hybrid and full flash, and the customer that uses hybrid has benefited in terms of performance. HPE Nimble Storage is fairly priced compared to Dell; they are directly compatible and can compete with each other. Based on my direct experience, HPE Nimble Storage is easier to use compared to Dell, although I don't have much experience with Dell Storage. The interface and the concept of the storage structure make it easier to use. My overall experience as a reseller with HPE Nimble Storage is very good, and I would rate it 10 out of 10.

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Pros

"I find Pure Storage FlashArray to be much better than traditional storage because it has a GUI interface. It makes the process of allocating the storage much easier, and most activities are automated. It is like clicking a button for every task."

"It is fast and reliable. It works."

"Pure Storage FlashArray is a good product with minimal management requirements once set up correctly and helped reduce our storage footprint from EMC."

"Overall, Pure Storage FlashArray has never let us down in front of customers so far."

"Everpure FlashArray is very good with AI development and is very suitable for low downtime and critical mission storage, so customers who need critical mission storage and those chasing performance should consider this solution."

"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."

"From an intangible standpoint the lack of care and feeding is notable and freed up the Storage Team to do other things."

"The Pure Storage customer service is by far the best part of the product and organization."

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"The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption."

"This solution had the best cost and it was easy to work with the Vendor."

"The most valuable features are its cost-effectiveness, performance, and its deduplication deficiencies."

"The best support ever."

"We've seen ROI in the retirement of obsolete platforms, the reduction of the licensing cost of outside products, and by collapsing of other storage platforms into a single platform."

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

"The level of technical support is excellent. We are always able to speak to an intelligent engineer 24/7/365."

"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."

"These companies manufacture products that are easy to implement, easy to use and affordable."

"Look at Nimble; it fits that median point of "I want something better than my own, home-grown solution" and "I don't want to buy a product that is too expensive," and it is squarely in the middle."

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Cons

"Enhanced documentation and beginner-friendly guidelines would benefit users with less configuration experience."

"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."

"The interface lacks the same level of control as some other arrays I've used."

"It is a bit expensive."

"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."

"The price of the Pure Storage Flash Array is too high and there needs to be more contract clarity."

"Pure Storage's logs could provide more visibility to the end-user. The logging algorithms are different from those of other vendors. For example, Cisco's logs provide extensive troubleshooting data, whereas Pure Storage logs offer limited information. We have to contact support to get more information."

"Automation could be simplified."

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"The exterior display needs to be improved."

"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."

"While the technical support isn't good every single time, for the most part, we are happy with it."

"It would have been nice if the vendor had informed us of a known bug that occurred during the firmware upgrade because we could have prevented our only major failure."

"I'd also like to see them incorporate tools that let me get granular with the VMs. I want to see an individual VM, I want to Snapshot and recover an individual VM."

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

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

"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."

"I would rate Nimble an eight out of 10, with cost probably being the big factor. It was a little on the pricey side at the time that it was bought."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Once you purchase Pure Storage FlashArray it is all-inclusive, you receive all the licenses needed."

"The price is very reasonable when compared to other solutions."

"There should be quite a bit of reduction of TCO with just licensing (and stuff) because we run the VM environment off it."

"When we bought the unit, we bought per capacity. So, the licensing is per capacity, and the only thing that we have to buy every year or every three years is maintenance. Included in that maintenance is the upgrade of the controllers every three years at no cost to us."

"The price is reasonable."

"We evaluated Oracle and Hitachi, but Pure Storage had the better pricing."

"Our Evergreen Storage subscription is supposed to be good when we go to upgrade."

"There is always room for negotiation."

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"This solution has a good price-performance ratio."

"We have seen tremendous ROI. It pays for itself 10 times over in the matter of four years."

"I would classify it as an expensive product."

"It is cost-effective, which is important for a service provider, because you're competing with hyper-scale providers who do things at extremely large scale, who tend to kill you on price if you're not careful."

"If we had stuck with EMC, we would have spent a lot more. We have EMC in-house, we have a bunch of them. Switching to Nimble saved me millions of dollars over the past three years... Nimble fills a need for performance within a budget that is in the sub-million dollar range."

"There is a monthly fee to use the solution."

"It's expensive. It could be cheaper. I'd rate it a five out of ten in terms of pricing. We're on a yearly licensing. I haven't come across any additional costs. We just paid for three-year support."

"There are no licensing costs for this solution."

"We paid about $80,000 for our permanent site licence."

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it_user277539

Vice President, Products and Services with 51-200 employees

Jul 30, 2015

Hybrid storage, all-flash storage, and hyper-converged products offer software capable of running on commodity hardware, providing a better end-user experience at a reduced price.

Originally posted at https://www.freeitdata.com/ Over the last 15 years, the storage industry has primarily been dominated (market share) by six companies, EMC, NetApp, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), HP and Dell. In 2013, these six companies made up approximately 85% of all storage sold in the…

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Also Known As

Pure Storage FlashArray

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Nimble Storage

Overview

The FlashArray family delivers consistent, high-performance data services across block, file, and object workloads. As part of the Everpure Platform, it provides the foundation for a unified data plane, enabling applications to reliably access, protect, and manage data across environments with simplicity and predictability. With built-in capabilities such as inline data reduction, snapshots, replication, and ransomware resilience, FlashArray ensures efficient operations, protected data, and consistent application uptime.

As the foundation of the (unified) data plane, FlashArray enables policy-driven automation, monitoring, and centralized management while integrating across cloud and on-premises environments. Built on an Evergreen architecture, it supports non-disruptive upgrades and continuous performance improvements over time while simplifying operations at scale.

What Key Features Does FlashArray Offer?

Simplicity and Speed: Easy management and rapid performance enhancements.
Data Reduction: Effective deduplication and compression.
Flash Architecture: Seamless upgrades and outstanding resilience.
VMware Integration: Excellent compatibility with virtualization platforms.
Predictive Analytics: Strong insights for proactive management.

What Benefits Should Users Consider?

Reliability: Proactive support with minimal downtime.
Efficiency: Reduced storage footprint and enhanced data management.
Performance: Faster processing speeds and low latency.
User Experience: Simplified management with Evergreen model.

In industries like finance, banking, and healthcare, FlashArray supports high-performance storage needs focusing on virtualization and database environments. Employed for VMware workloads, disaster recovery, and storage provisioning, it ensures application performance in private or hybrid cloud setups while enhancing management of virtualized environments.

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage)

The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM delivers proven enterprise-class functionality — advanced virtualization of externally attached storage, logical partitioning, thin provisioning and universal replication — in flexible, cost effective service oriented configurations.

Hitachi Vantara

HPE Nimble Storage provides efficient and high-performance storage solutions with seamless OS upgrades, excellent performance, and proactive support. It offers scalable storage management with advanced capabilities, enhancing usability through strong integration with VMware.

Designed for simplicity and performance, HPE Nimble Storage facilitates smooth firmware updates without downtime, featuring advanced data compression, deduplication, and replication. InfoSight analytics offer predictive capacity management, improving efficiency and optimizing storage. While excelling in VMware environments, its pricing and feature set require careful consideration. Users often seek enhanced snapshot management, integration improvements, and broader protocol support alongside active-active controller capabilities.

What are the key features of HPE Nimble Storage?

Ease of setup and management: Quick installation with streamlined administrative tasks.
Seamless OS upgrades: Implements updates without disrupting operations.
Data compression and deduplication: Optimizes storage efficiency by minimizing data footprint.
InfoSight analytics: Provides predictive analytics for efficient resource management.
Integration with VMware: Enhances functionality for virtual environments.

What benefits should users consider?

High performance: Delivers reliable and fast data access for critical applications.
Proactive support: Expert assistance simplifies administration tasks.
Cost-effectiveness: Provides cost-efficient storage solutions with advanced capabilities.
Scalability: Adapts to growing data requirements, supporting long-term growth.

HPE Nimble Storage is widely adopted in sectors like legal, healthcare, and finance, supporting virtual environments and business-critical applications like ERP and document management systems. Emphasizing high availability and fast access, it addresses storage needs across production and test data, particularly in VMware settings.

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