"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The most valuable features are the duplication and compression traffic. We have second storage that we can use for the synchronization of data between the data centers."
"The replay and IOPS work well."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"The deduplication and compression capabilities are powerful."
"I have found the convergence rate and deduplication the most valuable features."
"In the 20 days that we have been using this solution, it has been stable."
"The fact that you can manage the requirements is one the most valuable features of HPE Nimble Storage. The other is the rapid deployment time."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"This solution is very stable."
"IBM's technical support do excellent work."
"The compression and deduplication features are the most valuable."
"One of the valuable features is the performance, it is one of the best in the market."
"Over the years, it has become increasingly user-friendly."
"Most of the features for the reduction in data compression are useful. It is also very easy to use and administer. Its performance is also good."
"The installation is nice and easy."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"The scalability could be better."
"A feature that would be a nice addition to the next release would be a filer option. A filer option so that you could connect the sim or NFS or chips like NetApp does for NAS functionality."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"They can include Amazon file system S3 protocol in the upcoming releases. It is a cloud file system. IBM FlashSystem doesn't have this feature in the box for high-end or mid-range. We have got requests for this from customers because we need to use S3 for EDI application storage. At the beginning of every year, IBM releases firmware. When I find any bugs in the firmware during the year, I am unable to find any information from IBM regarding the bug. I need to open a ticket, and the IBM engineering team makes a patch only for me. This patch is not public. By creating a customized patch for a client, they don't really solve the issue for everyone. If multiple users have the same bug, IBM should upload the patch on the official website so that we can download it. IBM FlashSystem has a monitoring tool in the box, but it is not advanced. I need a more advanced tool for more advanced equations and monitoring. All top three storage vendors, that is, EMC, IBM, and Pure Storage, don't have a powerful monitoring tool. To monitor our box to show the statistics for I/Os and latency, I need to pay for extra software. The built-in monitoring storage is not mature enough to handle all requests and generate all reports that I need. They can include the functionality to stretch a cluster natively without using any additional boxes. In addition, there are some features that EMC has integrated with the box. These features are not available in IBM FlashSystem."
"The pricing needs to be more competitive."
"Their technical support needs improvement in terms of reachability for the clients and response times. They should be more responsive and have more online platforms for support. They should make more technical information available online. There could be some kind of documentation community."
"The solution is not easy to use and could improve."
"The solution is quite expensive. That's one of the downsides to using it."
"The technical support in my region is satisfactory but it could improve. Support is very important for customers and downtime is very critical for us. We would like onsite or complete technical support which can help us to minimize our downtime or if problems occur."
"The price is very costly."
"The data reduction pool feature sucks and is not recommended for use with heavy workloads."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 28 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 33 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 8.8, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Proactive end-to-end management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "Reliable and easy to configure with simple data migration capabilities ". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray and NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) and HPE StorageWorks MSA. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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