We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and VAST Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The performance is very good."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"We have seen our average latency go from four milliseconds to point four. Therefore, we are getting 10 times better performance down to the end user on everything. We have seen an increase in our IOPS by ten times."
"The most valuable features are the duplication and compression traffic. We have second storage that we can use for the synchronization of data between the data centers."
"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."
"The solution's predictive analytics is good. It helps to save costs."
"It's very easy to set up. It's very stable, and it has got great deduplication, especially for hypervisor users."
"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."
"Some of the beneficial features I have found are the Block-level backups, the interface is easy to use, backups work well and the portal is functional."
"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."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"The way the market is going, supporting NVMe storage would be useful as a step up."
"Pure Storages have some option, which allows us the ability to directly download that host inventory and volume report. We can receive everything directly generated from the storage itself. We do not need to use some other web browser or something. If HPE Nimble Storage could do the same it would be a benefit."
"I would like deduplication by default on all the volumes. I still don't understand (or know why) dedupe isn't enabled for the templates out-of-the-box. We have to go in and manually enable it each and every time."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"I want it to be an active-active array. Nimble would be great as an active-active array because then everything checks out. It would give a feeling of comfort."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"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."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 18th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and Pure FlashArray X NVMe, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Qumulo, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Dell PowerStore.
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