We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray 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."I like the ability to snapshot, and the cloning features are valuable to us as well. I like that I can quickly and efficiently snapshot the data and move it to wherever I need to locally or in the cloud. Also, I know that when I take the snapshot that all of the data will be there and that it will be usable when I need to use it."
"Technical support has been okay."
"The newest version of ONTAP has a bit of a learning curve because you need to learn where things are to find them. It is not impossible, but when you are accustomed to the older version of ONTAP, it just takes a bit getting used to it, but it is about the same as before."
"Other manufacturers claim simplicity. In fact, frankly, they do have an advantage in that regard, however, they don't have the functionality. If you were to compare one of those products to NetApp, head to head from a feature perspective, NetApp would wind up in the top 10."
"The speed of data retrieval is the most valuable feature. We mostly use it for our SAP database and we are getting good IO from the hard drive."
"This solution helps accelerate demanding enterprise applications. VMware workloads, the database, and Oracle Solaris are hosted on AFF, which means that our primary priority workloads are on AFF and that the secondary ones are on FAS. That includes the SAN national cloud."
"The benefits of being on AFF are the phenomenal speed at which we're able to ingest data and index it, and the IOPS."
"Using System Manager for green management or command line interface, we have a single point for managing the cluster. It is much easier to manage. It is very seamless. The product is robust and solid."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"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 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."
"InfoSight is helpful because it is proactive support."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"The deduplication and compression capabilities are powerful."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"Technical support is good."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Support has been helpful."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"We have been seeing some challenges around the application layer implementation. We are having some teething problems now with the cooperation between the application layer and backups to things, like SnapCenter. This may be a question of product maturity."
"The NetApp support could be better."
"After the three-year prepay, the extended warranty is a little expensive."
"From my perspective, everything works well. They've already announced that they have some features in their next release that make the existing investment more usable, by adding software features to your existing legacy hardware investment."
"It would be better if they just improved the performance of the system."
"For ONTAP, in general, the deduplication ratio and Snapshot limitation are areas that need improvement. There is a global limitation on the number of Snapshots or clones that can be spun off of a particular Snapshot. If those limitations are increased, it might be helpful."
"When it comes to the cloud, they might need to improve in terms of making it clear why someone would use a NetApp solution over cloud-made storage."
"The initial setup has a lot more steps in it than are probably necessary for a base deployment, unlike other vendors where it's more straightforward. It could be a little bit more streamlined."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"The stability can be improved."
"We have had some stability issues with one array which has happened twice during subsequent software updates but is due to a bad Postgres database."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"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."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 26 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 43 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 8.8, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Proactive end-to-end management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Provides protection against ransomware threats with immutable snapshots, and it is well known for its scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, VMware vSAN, Dell Unity XT and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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