We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp NVMe AFF A800 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."Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The most valuable features are its cost-effectiveness, performance, and its deduplication deficiencies."
"It has totally taken away a layer of time and effort, management-wise, from two engineers to give that time back into developing more solutions. It has provided us essentially with a platform to go away and be more creative, knowing that that is stable and can do whatever we chuck at it."
"InfoSight has allowed us to centralize our management, understanding how it correlates to the array. It has identified a network issue in the network configuration of ESXi hosts. It enables us to get servers back up faster by 25 percent."
"We have found the advantage of it is the easy, rapid setup, but also that it is very easy to manage."
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"Their remote management and understanding when things are starting to go wrong and their ability to fix them before the customer even knows, this has been a big positive when a customer makes the decision to go with Nimble"
"Even through upgrades, there is no downtime, not even a hiccup for users."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"The most valuable features are stability and performance."
"Over the eight years, we've been using NetApp with ONTAP, we've never lost a bit of data, and we've only experienced a few minutes of downtime in that entire time."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O."
"Low latency is the most valuable feature."
"NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is easier to use than some other solutions and the UI is very good to use for day-to-day activities. Overall, the solution has good technology."
"During the use cases of the solution, its reliability and suitability are the best."
"The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally."
"You can easily scale up, and scale-out."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"I'd like to see more granular quality of service rules. Currently, I think currently there's not much room for maximum IOPS, but there's not an option for minimum IOPS for a given volume."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The product’s UI could be better."
"The cost of the solution is quite high. It would be ideal if they could adjust it so that it's a but less."
"Stability is an area with a certain shortcoming where the solution needs to improve"
"The initial setup is complex."
"The support can take a few days to have a response. However, the response that we do receive is very informative."
"The initial setup should be easier, and more like a plug-and-play approach."
"The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked 17th in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is rated 8.8. 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 NVMe AFF A800 writes "Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI ". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 report.
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