We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Pure Storage, NetApp and others in All-Flash Storage."The most valuable feature is replication."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"It worked flawlessly."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"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 solution is quite scalable."
"The scalability is straightforward."
"It's very easy to set up. It's very stable, and it has got great deduplication, especially for hypervisor users."
"The capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"Nimble's phone-home capability is decent. The compression, dedupe, and caching are also solid. Generally, I like the simplicity. It's almost a set-and-forget solution."
"Overall the solution is very good."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"The technical support is good. We are always thankful for the technical support from VMware. They are very supportive when we have a technical problem."
"The performance of VMware vSAN is very good."
"The vSAN features we've found most helpful are live application migrations and storage policies. It has storage, policies, application, and DRS policies. Automation is there."
"I think vSAN's stability is good. It's an underlying solution for both on-prem and in the cloud, especially the VMC on AWS stuff too. VMware has been around for a long time, so it's pretty stable."
"VMware comes with different stacks like VMware Cloud Foundation, which is integrated with different VMware modules. There's interoperability between VMware products."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"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."
"Automation could be simplified."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"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."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"There should be faster interfaces."
"You could argue that it would be preferable if everything were cheaper in order to save taxpayer money."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"We face challenges with hardware delivery."
"Nimble Storage could increase its flexibility by adding more protocol options. Nimble mainly uses fibre channel protocols, whereas many other storage arrays support fibre channel, iCSI, and NFS protocols."
"I would like to see more support for applications. I think currently it only supports applications between two vSAN clusters."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
"The updating process could be easier."
"We often run out of space but we have enough capacity for memory and CPU. It's difficult to find the balance between storage and memory CPU."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"The only negative point relates to the licensing. If you want multiple, different servers, it costs money, but you have all the capacity for vSAN. You do not reach the data, but the processor arrays and the current architecture."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"In a future release, they could add micro-segmentation or security level features integrated into vSAN."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 28 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 60 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 8.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Proactive end-to-end management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) and IBM FlashSystem, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI.
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