We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and SolidFire 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 really straight forward."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"If a ransomware or enterprise-level attack happens, my infrastructure remains totally secure. If any virtual machine gets damaged or collapses, we have built a backup solution, which will take a minute to restore the same version of HPE Nimble Storage in our company."
"Nimble Storage is a great storage solution which will give you a lot insight on the growth of your storage."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"I use InfoSight quite a bit. It works well. It allows you to get some insight into what's happening in your environment immediately, instead of having to send things off and having them analyzed and sent back to you."
"It dynamically understands what data is being stored on it and where to store it, because they have got a flash array at the front, then obviously the standard style of storage at the back."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"I would say in terms of architecture and in terms of functionality, the product is quite good."
"The provisioning process is efficient and doesn't demand higher latency, ensuring optimal data transfer performance which is particularly valuable for tasks like data mining, where quick results are essential."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"Its pricing could be better. It's expensive."
"The way the market is going, supporting NVMe storage would be useful as a step up."
"More reporting is probably the only thing that is really lacking. It would be helpful to go to the business and say, "This is how we've evolved with our solution, and this is why we need more." Being able to put forward a business case with data to back it up, essentially."
"I really would like to see synchronous replication. This is something that when we have multiple arrays in our environment and being able to do something like a zero RPO."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"The stability can be improved."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
"The user interface needs to be improved. Much of the client feedback involves comments such as "Oh, it's hard to navigate through.""
"The tool should improve its initial cost which is expensive compared to other products."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
"It's a very good Windows-type solution. But we do a lot of legacy systems and the like. So it's getting that incorporated into it that would help us."
"We had some false positives, power supplies failing, and that's really been about it. We had a couple of glitches during some upgrade processes but nothing that was really concerning to us."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. SolidFire report.
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