We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and HPE Primera based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions had a similar user rating in terms of ease of deployment. HPE Primera had a better user rating regarding pricing and service and support. In terms of features, HPE Nimble Storage users felt there were stability and scalability issues, while HPE Primera users felt the reporting console needed improvements and the user interface wasn’t user-friendly.
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"We get storage access without the need for more human monitoring of those resources."
"If a ransomware or enterprise-level attack happens, my infrastructure remains totally secure. If any virtual machine gets damaged or collapses, we have built a backup solution, which will take a minute to restore the same version of HPE Nimble Storage in our company."
"I really like the form factor, which is nice and compact and small."
"InfoSight has identified controller failures or performance issues."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"InfoSight is helpful because it is proactive support."
"The most valuable feature is InfoSight, and the ability that InfoSight gives you, from insight within your environment to what is going on at the storage layer."
"We like the performance."
"HPE Primera is scalable."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We sold Primera to a public university, and they're happy with it. They have been using it for about four months with no significant problems."
"All of the capabilities of the hardware such as replication, snapshot, and the specific features are all included from the start as opposed to being on another license."
"It serves as the primary storage in my production environment."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"For over a year, I have not seen any downtime in the product."
"It is a stable and scalable solution with quick and efficient storage capability."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"The amount of firmware updates released seem excessive."
"When sizing the array based on requirements the option to add more network cards for throughput would be something to help clients."
"There should be faster interfaces."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"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 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."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"I wish they would put the InfoSight page back the way it was. I got in it for the first time about two years ago, and it looked the same for about a year and a half. Then, about six months ago, it changed. There are different options now. I can still get to where I need to go, but it feels like it takes longer, where before it didn't. Also, I felt like I had a lot more options before. I have to do a lot more to digging now to get to where I need to go. I just wish they had their old page back."
"We would like to have more flash storage and its stability. This is an area of challenge for us."
"The IOPS and throughput could be better. That's the only drawback compared to other vendors."
"There are certain features that require engineering-level access, which should be accessible to storage admins as well."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"The solution could prove the reporting."
"We've encountered issues in the past where maintaining a read-only state is essential to prevent data encryption when VPN access is impacted."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly in that sense that installation and management are still a bit on the high end."
"The file server embedded in Pure, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, VMware vSAN, IBM FlashSystem and NetApp AFF, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. HPE Primera report.
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