We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Tintri VMstore 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.
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"Any updates are just part of your subscription, so you don't have to buy add-ons for new features. You're continually adding value to it."
"It's very stable and fast, and I am very happy with the deduplication. It saves a lot of space, which is great."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"Regarding their support, you always get through to somebody who knows exactly what they're talking about."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"Nimble's support is awesome and one of the best. You sort of get a Tier 3 plus guy every time that you call, no matter if it is a Tier 0 issue. This is super helpful in case we ever have problems."
"InfoSight has identified controller failures or performance issues."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. It is much easier to use, and we do not have to worry about the I/O profile of the workloads that we putting on the array."
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"It is a set and forget environment with a very good tooling to view performance and delivers the IOPS we need for our VDI environment."
"Performance, cost, and ease of storage management."
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"The most valuable feature is the VM management."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"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."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"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."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"Its pricing could be better. It's expensive."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"The only thing I'm really looking for in my next array is some hyperconverged, so if they had something in that space... But I know they have SimpliVity so that is probably not going to happen."
"The solution that I have is a hybrid, not a full flash. The hybrid version could be improved."
"I want to see the full integration with OneView. I know they have started it, but I haven't had a chance to look at and evaluate it."
"What I feel would be nice, in terms of a wishlist, is scalability. Rather than replacing the whole appliance, I would like to be able to just add another unit and scale it like that."
"I think with the world soon becoming only SSD, possibly NVMe, and 3D Xpoint. It would make sense for Tintri to drop the hybrid array down the line."
"Technical support is an area where we had several issues, and it was hard to get some support in a specific case we had. I'm not very satisfied with them."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"Their support staff just doesn't have the experience with all of the products that we're running. They don't know the 850 series like we do because it's five years old. There is a little bit of a gap, and that may just be because we're an old customer running on platforms that their staff hasn't seen. I would like to see an improvement in their in-depth knowledge of their older products."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"I would like to be able to add more storage capacity to our 2 units down the road with out buying an additional seprate array."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tintri VMstore writes "We were able to push a button—it really is that simple—and flip primary and secondary storage locations". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF, DDN IntelliFlash and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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