We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and INFINIDAT InfiniBox 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Storage."We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"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..."
"The technical support is very good."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far."
"The most valuable features are its cost-effectiveness, performance, and its deduplication deficiencies."
"Its speed, ease of use, and it has been completely reliable."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"InfoSight provides real-time reporting, it gives you information about your different volumes, how the arrays are being used, I/O, performance in general."
"This product has good performance."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"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 would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"There are customers who want to do some different things with the Microsoft Resilient File System. There are some customers who want to do different types of connectivity. I do not know if I would call that an improvement, necessarily, because if you want that, you should get a different product."
"Pure Storages have some option, which allows us the ability to directly download that host inventory and volume report. We can receive everything directly generated from the storage itself. We do not need to use some other web browser or something. If HPE Nimble Storage could do the same it would be a benefit."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"The stability can be improved."
"You could argue that it would be preferable if everything were cheaper in order to save taxpayer money."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"I would like to see native network attached storage (NAS) functionality. Our customers are looking for NAS, and Nimble can't give it to them."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Dell XtremIO, VMware vSAN and HPE 3PAR StoreServ.
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