HPE Nimble Storage pros and cons

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.

They have really thought through their solution. They've covered everything.

The management software that runs in the cloud is called InfoSight and it is very good. It is similar to machine learning software that monitors your hardware.

The initial setup is straightforward.

InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed

HPE Nimble Storage uses the InfoSight platform and it is useful because we can identify the faults and can analyze the performance. It has many other features. This feature is the best that I have observed from HPE Nimble Storage.

The interaction with VMware is most valuable.

The scalability is straightforward.

The solution is quite scalable.

Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet.

A feature that would be a nice addition to the next release would be a filer option. A filer option so that you could connect the sim or NFS or chips like NetApp does for NAS functionality.

When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal.

I would like to have more administrative rights, for example, root-level administrative rights to the underlying OS of the storage array. We want more access to the kind of underlying infrastructure of the storage array rather than relying on support. However, most companies are looking to have more managed solutions which is the opposite direction of what I want.

It was a bit expensive.

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.

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.

Its pricing could be better. It's expensive.

There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features.

The solution should allow for easier configurations.

HPE does not have suffficient storage.