We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp AFF 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 initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"It simplifies storage."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far."
"The storage capacity efficiency is phenomenal. It is off the charts in comparison to the compression ratios that we got before. We are able to save a lot more to the device."
"The management software that runs in the cloud is called InfoSight and it is very good. It is similar to machine learning software that monitors your hardware."
"The performance and the processor are good."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"Performance, reliability, InfoSight, the ability to upgrade the O/S on the SAN without taking it down, and cost."
"We use InfoSight predictive analytics. It helps us from a performance perspective by identifying potential bottlenecks."
"The NVMe flash cache is the most useful feature. It lowers transactional speed even more."
"Most of our business-critical systems are provisioned from the NetApp AFF system. Compared to others, we have a minimal latency. Configuring the DR for high availability or migrating the volumes from one box to another is pretty easy with NetApp AFF."
"The biggest benefit of NetApp AFF is the performance."
"ActiveIQ is the most valuable feature. It's a central point for me to be able to kick into everything every day. I log in first thing and make sure there are no issues, and it helps me with my day-to-day."
"I think that the DR applications are the most valuable, including Snapshots and SnapMirror."
"The technical support is fantastic. No one else is like their team. We're happy with them."
"We had some customers who were running virtualization workloads on classical spinning disks. We implemented an AFF system, and they got a huge performance boost out of it because the latency of the SSDs is simply much lower. Actually, most customers benefit from the improved latency and performance from the AFF systems."
"It's very stable. It's always there when we need it. With the Dual Controller, if one drops out, the other one comes right online. We don't use any iSCSI so there is a little bit of a latency break but, over the NFS, we don't notice that switch-on. We can do maintenance in the middle of the day, literally rip a whole controller out of the chassis, and do what we need to do with it."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"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."
"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 HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"I would like to see if they could move the virtual storage machines. They have integrated a DR, so you can back to your DR, but there's no automated way to failover and failback. It's all manual. I'd like to see it all automated."
"Going forward, I would like more performance analytics on it, on the area itself, instead of using some other tool."
"I would like it to be an IP as our network is mainly IP-based."
"The total cost of ownership has increased a little."
"Offering the ability to actively write data on a single volume spanning multiple clusters is significant."
"The product should be more competitive and come up with additional features. They should keep the client always in mind and as the top priority. This would be the best way to compete with other solutions."
"A while ago, they performed quite slowly."
"NetApp should have a local presence in Pakistan."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while NetApp AFF is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, VMware vSAN and Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. NetApp AFF report.
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