"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"The deployment is fast."
"The performance and the processor are good."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"The fact that you can manage the requirements is one the most valuable features of HPE Nimble Storage. The other is the rapid deployment time."
"It's very stable and fast, and I am very happy with the deduplication. It saves a lot of space, which is great."
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"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 like the orchestration feature."
"The high availability is very good."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"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."
"We have found the solution to be very scalable."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The resellers did the implementation of the solution, we did not do it ourselves. We have ten people for the deployment of the solution."
"The stability can be improved."
"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."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"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 would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"You could argue that it would be preferable if everything were cheaper in order to save taxpayer money."
"Customers who are using Essentials Plus or even Essentials have to pay for technical support. However, they should not have to pay for support."
"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
"If we have some complicated issues, you have to use the command lines interface. Not everything is possible to be fixed in the GUI. This is a drawback, that some things have to be fixed via command-line interface and should be able to be done in the GUI."
"More focus has to be put on deduplication and compression with a hybrid architecture."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"I would like for the next release to be a bit cheaper."
"The updating process could be easier."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 28 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 87 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 8.8, 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, Pure Storage FlashArray and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity and DataCore SANsymphony.
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