HPE Nimble Storage vs. VAST Data

HPE Nimble Storage

HPE Nimble Storage

65 Reviews and Ratings

VAST Data

VAST Data

0 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HPE Nimble Storage	Score 6.6 out of 10	N/A	Nimble Storage was acquired by HPE in 2017. The enterprise flash array product line now goes by the name HPE Nimble Storage.	N/A
VAST Data	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	VAST's universal storage innovations combine to deliver a compounded level of storage savings with the goal of making flash affordable. VAST provides All Flash performance which allows users to write at Storage Class Memory speeds, read at NVMe speeds and scale to millions of IOPS and Terabytes per second. VAST's File and Object Storage solution scales to meet any application or capacity agenda all while being engineered at every level to deliver unrivaled system efficiency.	N/A

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Community Pulse
	HPE Nimble Storage	VAST Data
Considered Both Products	HPE Nimble Storage Verified User Anonymous Chose HPE Nimble Storage A strong user community Improves performance saves time and helps us to focus on other critical components. Incentivized Helpful? TL Tim Lillis Director of Infrastructure Chose HPE Nimble Storage EMC and Dells products were long in the tooth and kind of outdated. They lacked the reporting and analytics that HPE Nimble provides. Pure is really our gold standard for storage , but even Pure lacks the analytics that HPE is able to achieve. I would love to transfer those … Incentivized Helpful? JK Jagmender Kharb Technical Team Lead Chose HPE Nimble Storage Dell EMC Unity and IBM FlashSystem Incentivized Helpful? BA Brian Aguirre Sr Mgr Cloud Infrastructure Chose HPE Nimble Storage As far as performance, they are all very similar now regarding IOPS but Nimble is a nice and easy product. Only thing it lacks is the multiprotocol. Upgrades are easy to deploy. Incentivized Helpful? JK Jeeva Kumar Information System Manager Chose HPE Nimble Storage The Main reason for choosing HPE Nimble Hybrid storage is the Cost. However, even though its not ALL Flash Storage it was still providing the high performance, Latency less than 2 ms, good compression and de-duplication, zeop downtime on software upgrade, good reporting through … Incentivized Helpful? SA Scott Anderson IT Administrator Chose HPE Nimble Storage We used a Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage array for many years and it worked well. A big issue was that upgrading firmware required system downtime and during one upgrade I was unable to bring the systems back up afterwards. I spent several days on the phone over a holiday … Incentivized Helpful? SF Sam Fowler IT Manager Chose HPE Nimble Storage EMC - VNX E3500 The VNX management portal is not as simple to use. The support life-cycle of the VNX is also not as long. The features you get from Nimble are much better without having to pay for extra licenses. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose HPE Nimble Storage We had some legacy EqualLogic that needed lots of care and feeding and performed on a so so rating. The Tintri appeared to perform well, it had some cutting edge things in the management of virtual machine data stores and siloing them out (pre-release of VVOLs). The price … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose HPE Nimble Storage The main selling point for Nimble was the high availability and read/write speeds, and how well it integrates with our virtual infrastructure. The support was also by far one of the best we have experienced across any of our vendors, with any queries we have had being resolved … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose HPE Nimble Storage Starwind is much less expensive and is more of a virtual "provide your own hardware" San so its performance will really depend on how much extra money you put into building the back end. With that said the amount of work it takes to get Starwind working correctly and building … Incentivized Helpful? OK Omar Khalid Senior Information Technology Analyst Chose HPE Nimble Storage HPE Nimble compares well from a performance and storage perspective. It is easy to manage and maintain and there is adequate support with a 4hr Same Business Day response for parts. The unit is a little larger than AFA from competitors however it fits well in a 4U rack. Pure … Incentivized Helpful? CJ Curtis Jackson Network Admin Chose HPE Nimble Storage Both are great products. Both integrate well with VMware Incentivized Helpful? JK Jeff Koelker IT Security and Network Manager Chose HPE Nimble Storage When going with Nimble, I compared it against Nutanix (hypervisor/storage all in one), NetApp, and HPE Simplivity (hypervisor/storage all in one). Immediately I was drawn to the Nutanix and HPE Simplivity systems due to their performance capabilities of having everything within … Incentivized Helpful? PN Paul Nicholson IT Director Chose HPE Nimble Storage Nimble beat Dell and EMC in our bench test in every category including 5 year ROI. Incentivized Helpful? LH Lee Holland, CISSP Director of Information Systems Chose HPE Nimble Storage I've used Dell Equallogic, Infortrend, Drobo, and Qnap. These products just aren't in the same league with exception to maybe Equallogic. Equallogic is enterprise grade and very good, but frankly still doesn't even compare to Nimble. Incentivized Helpful? JB Jerry Balch Director of Emplyee Services Chose HPE Nimble Storage Nimble was way easier to set up initially, simpler to present volumes and WAY simpler to set up replication on. We got rid of 2 Tegile arrays that we're only 18 months old due to their poor design and clunky software. Incentivized Helpful? JR Josh Rice, MBA, ACSP IT Project Manager Chose HPE Nimble Storage Nimble is much quicker and more efficient than the MSA solution, however we did roll out the MSA solution for DR purposes. Running them side-by-side you can see a significant variance between writing speeds between the two products. Because we are a 7 day shop and have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose HPE Nimble Storage The expense and general cockiness of Pure Storage is what pushed me to Nimble. The guys at Nimble were laid back and had invited me to a bunch of events and I got to learn in a non-pushy environment about the technology that makes their devices tick. They were also there to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose HPE Nimble Storage Purchase price was great and actually cheaper than most competitors but yet I felt like the product was better put together and further along than most of the others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose HPE Nimble Storage We were early adopters of Nimble. At the time of our SAN deployment, EMC and NetApp didn't have solutions that matched our needs. Nimble presented itself as a next generation storage platform that wasn't bogged down by legacy technologies. They had a turnkey solution for our … Incentivized Helpful? BG Bear Golightly IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager Chose HPE Nimble Storage All of the storage vendors we tested in a shoot-out performed pretty well, though I don't have the raw numbers. What sold us on Nimble is the service and support, which the others cannot touch. Incentivized Helpful? JJ Jeremy Judnic Network Administrator Chose HPE Nimble Storage We currently use EMC VNX in our environment and it works well, but after using Nimble we would probably continue that route. The bang for the buck is better with Nimble, and it is just as easy if not easier to use than EMCs product. Also, Nimble support has been some of the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose HPE Nimble Storage Hands down Nimble has been better able to handle the workloads and needs of IT and business growth vs. the NAS solutions I have used. I must also say, our NAS solutions have been primarily for storage and not server situations. The flexibility of Nimble paired with VMWare and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose HPE Nimble Storage Comparing Nimble Storage to the top three players EMC, NETAPP, and HP was hard to do. Everyone had their own special perks. Those companies have been around a lot longer. Three years ago when we made our purchase with Nimble, the company was only 3 years old. We were skeptical … Incentivized Helpful? NT Nicolas Tenthorey Help Desk Manager Chose HPE Nimble Storage We use a DROBO NAS for some applications but Nimble is far better performing. Incentivized Helpful?	VAST Data No answer on this topic

Features

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Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
	HPE Nimble Storage 8.7 Ratings 3% below category average	VAST Data - Ratings
Flash Array Performance	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Flash Array Integration	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data Compression	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Simplicity	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Power Savings	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	HPE Nimble Storage	VAST Data
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Medium-sized Companies	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	HPE Nimble Storage	VAST Data
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	HPE Nimble Storage	VAST Data
Likelihood to Recommend	HPE Nimble Storage has very impressive deduplication and compression built into their systems. There is really no need to configure anything as it is taking care of automatically at the firmware layer. If you are not planning on utilizing the replication between partners it may very well suite you to find a less expensive option, but this was a feature that we needed. Incentivized SA Scott Anderson IT Administrator Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Storage Compression - Get more space for your money. We are saving about 4TB right out now using 20TB of space. Caching - Built in SSD caching works well. 75% of our data is hitting cache. It would be more, but our application code limits that. Latency - Latency is very low. Reads and Writes are always below 1ms. Usage Reporting - Great web portal to see how much space you are taking up and your expected growth pattern. Easy Setup - Easy to set up new volumes and expand volumes. Infosight (Web interface) has some neat free features. With VMware and maybe Hyper V you can see your performance on your VMs from the interface. You can see IO, latency, times, etc., that is useful for troubleshooting and performance planning. Rack Space - One of the main reasons we went with Nimble Storage was for rack space. We had 12U of space being taken up by HP Storage. With only 4U we could double and triple our storage space and save 8U for other things. This prevented us from adding another rack at our data center. Which isn't cheap. It saved us around $1200 a month. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	I'd like the GUI to include more information for some of the features such as replication data totals each night. You have to go to the command line for this. It would be nice to have a feature built into the GUI that would show you the command line equivalent to get the same results you are seeing in the GUI. Although the intial setup was easy, they could always improve on that portion. During my setup, I did have to do a lot of back and forth with research on their site as to what each setting was that I was setting up. They could have provided some sort of description for each field within the setup that would have made it easier to know what they were having us set up. Incentivized JK Jeff Koelker IT Security and Network Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	Nimble is doing its job well and any issues that do come up cause the Nimble support team to alert us before we would potentially see an impact to our production environment. I do wish we could expand into the unused space in the CS210 shelf which is limited by what I assume is a marketing/sales strategy, but we will likely add shelves moving forward. Incentivized Larry Askew IT Systems Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Almost perfect, some hoops to jump through after major upgrade, but overall simple and effective. Our storage administrator really likes the integration with vmware as it makes his life easier. Also it was no trouble integrating it with our active directory credentials. The only issue we had was getting the plugin in VMWare going initially. Incentivized Tim Lillis Director of Infrastructure Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Any time I have had to contact support, they have always been quick to respond, and very efficient in resolving any issues. When an action has been required on our side for a fix, they have been very helpful in explaining step by step what was required, and when replacement parts have been needed, we've had them within 24 hours. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	The Main reason for choosing HPE Nimble Hybrid storage is the Cost. However, even though its not ALL Flash Storage it was still providing the high performance, Latency less than 2 ms, good compression and de-duplication, zeop downtime on software upgrade, good reporting through infosight etc. with all these pros, it didn't make sense to invest on a ALL flash storage thats costs 3 time higher than nimble Incentivized JK Jeeva Kumar Information System Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Nimble's snapshot capability has saved us several times. It would be hard to estimate the amount of money we would have had to spend, in additional support, without the capability to quickly revert a LUN/VM back to its previous state. Much better than relying on VMware or MS Snapshots. Having the Nimble has allowed us the capability to build better and faster clusters which in turns as allowed our users to do more work in less time. Nimble can be expensive to start off with so initially it took a while for our ROI to turn positive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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