"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the management of Nimble Storage, InfoSight. This is like a cloud. That's really a very nice feature. I think that's the only reason to buy Nimble Storage."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"The performance and the processor are good."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The price should be lower."
"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."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 25 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 33 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 8.8, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 EMC Unity XT, Dell EMC PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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