We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series 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."It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"Support has been helpful."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"The performance is very good."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"We have found the advantage of it is the easy, rapid setup, but also that it is very easy to manage."
"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 most valuable features are its cost-effectiveness, performance, and its deduplication deficiencies."
"VMware integration, why is pretty self-explanatory."
"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."
"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."
"It's easy to use, it's just like 3PAR. I made clusters of 32 hosts with 50 volumes and that took barely an hour. I scripted a lot of it, filled in the names of volumes, the names of servers."
"Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is simple to use"
"The solution is very easy to set up."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is quite an elementary box, no frills. It does not have all the functionality of the DM but it is acceptable, it does its task. It integrates pretty well."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"Fewer features is not necessarily a negative as it leads to simpler operation and lower price."
"We have been working with the solution for around a year and so far it has shown itself to be stable."
"This solution is good for virtualization and meets the need for CPU and RAM requirements."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"It needs to improve its price."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"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."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"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."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"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 scalability could be better."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"The solution could be more scalable, although it suits our present needs."
"Usually, when a part fails, we have to replace it and it takes a while. It would be better if the part could be available locally here in Kenya so we don't have to wait so long to repair the solution."
"Its performance could be faster."
"ThinkSystem could be better integrated with backup software like Commvault, Veritas, or Symantec."
"Improvements can be made to the product's performance."
"It would be useful to have structured solutions replicated to other sites."
"In the next release, I would like to see more functionality. But, again, it is an entry-level product."
"There could be a snapshot feature in the solution."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is ranked 20th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series writes "Provides good stability and is reliable in terms of performance". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series report.
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