We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and VIOLIN QV2020 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 technical support is very good."
"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."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"The most valuable feature is InfoSight, and the ability that InfoSight gives you, from insight within your environment to what is going on at the storage layer."
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"InfoSight provides real-time reporting, it gives you information about your different volumes, how the arrays are being used, I/O, performance in general."
"It's very easy to set up. It's very stable, and it has got great deduplication, especially for hypervisor users."
"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 stability is awesome. The product has always been reliable. It has been 100 percent up. We have never had any downtime with it. Even if a controller fails due to our firmware or whatever, it rolls over to the second one and keeps us running."
"I have found the convergence rate and deduplication the most valuable features."
"The solution's predictive analytics is good. It helps to save costs."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"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."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"The backup solution that they are using now probably has not been deduped."
"We face challenges with hardware delivery."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."
"I wish they would put the InfoSight page back the way it was. I got in it for the first time about two years ago, and it looked the same for about a year and a half. Then, about six months ago, it changed. There are different options now. I can still get to where I need to go, but it feels like it takes longer, where before it didn't. Also, I felt like I had a lot more options before. I have to do a lot more to digging now to get to where I need to go. I just wish they had their old page back."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while VIOLIN QV2020 is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while VIOLIN QV2020 is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VIOLIN QV2020 writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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