We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"The reliability is very good."
"Data optimization, compression, and deduplication are the most important features for us."
"The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point."
"This is a good product with high capabilities and high reliability."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series exhibits good performance and has good IOPS: 300 IOPS. The technical support for this product is also good."
"We have many different types of replication, such as remote and drop local replication. All these features and licenses are already available. These are basic features available in the current model. Additionally, the performance has been good in our experience."
"The product offers high stability."
"The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability."
"The Hitachi VSP has significantly improved data storage scalability by addressing various issues. Through their research and development efforts, they've incorporated customer feedback regarding deployment speed and performance requirements."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"HPE Nimble Storage is very stable and performs well."
"The replay and IOPS work well."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"InfoSight has allowed us to centralize our management, understanding how it correlates to the array. It has identified a network issue in the network configuration of ESXi hosts. It enables us to get servers back up faster by 25 percent."
"We have found the advantage of it is the easy, rapid setup, but also that it is very easy to manage."
"Their remote management and understanding when things are starting to go wrong and their ability to fix them before the customer even knows, this has been a big positive when a customer makes the decision to go with Nimble"
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The price should be lower."
"It needs to improve its price."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack features."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"The installation procedure it a bit difficult, because it is a high-end solution. With this type of product, the original company is interested in doing the setup for customers in the area, but because of sanctions we were not able to get support in our area. We faced many issued trying to learn to run this product."
"The deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
"The initial deployment was somewhat complex when it came to the installation because of the network connectivity. It was more difficult, in this specific case, than with other platforms."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"I want to see the full integration with OneView. I know they have started it, but I haven't had a chance to look at and evaluate it."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"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."
"I want it to be an active-active array. Nimble would be great as an active-active array because then everything checks out. It would give a feeling of comfort."
"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."
"The large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks."
"The solution that I have is a hybrid, not a full flash. The hybrid version could be improved."
"I don't think it is officially released yet, but the main reason that we chose Nimble is because of the sync rep feature. So, I would like to see that further evolve. This feature will be essential for our setups."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 47 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE Primera, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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