We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The scalability is good."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"Our virtual admins are able to take control of Nimble and know how to allocate the storage, whenever it is required, thus reducing time."
"We get storage access without the need for more human monitoring of those resources."
"Its speed, ease of use, and it has been completely reliable."
"InfoSight is helpful because it is proactive support."
"I really like the form factor, which is nice and compact and small."
"The tool’s support is feasible."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"Performance, reliability, InfoSight, the ability to upgrade the O/S on the SAN without taking it down, and cost."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another."
"Compared to Dell Unity XT, what I see as an advantage in NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is the fact that it is more scalable...The performance of the product is good."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"The management software is very good."
"Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"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."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides."
"I'd also like to see them incorporate tools that let me get granular with the VMs. I want to see an individual VM, I want to Snapshot and recover an individual VM."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
"I would like to see the network portion of the product improve, especially with some of the things which are coming out from Aruba and HPE. Both are innovating more of an automated networking. I would like to see our Nimble meld into that and do some automated networking."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"There should be faster interfaces."
"We have used IBM previously. We found that the storage from IBM was poor and we chose NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays because it can scale very easily."
"Their problems are on the software and the controlling of the storage where they lack segmentation and federation."
"There could be an improvement when it comes to SLA support, it could be faster."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
"Its pricing should be better. Its price is competitive, but they need to improve the pricing. They have different licensing models, which they need to improve. My expectation was cloud integration, which they have, but it is a different license. Therefore, people cannot enjoy it. If I want to use it, I need to pay extra. There is a cost involved for everything, but it should reach everyone. It is similar to having a Rolls-Royce, but you need to pay extra for the key. If you want the key, you need to pay."
"The solution's technical support is not as good as it is supposed to be since you have to push them to get support."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
"The price of the All Flash solution is very high."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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 NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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