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HPE Nimble Storage

Score6.5 out of 10

65 Reviews and Ratings

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What is HPE Nimble Storage?

Nimble Storage was acquired by HPE in 2017. The enterprise flash array product line now goes by the name HPE Nimble Storage.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features HPE Nimble Storage has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Flash Array Integration

    Integration with hypervisors and applications

    Category average: 9.2

  • Data Compression

    Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements

    Category average: 8.5

  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades

    Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required

    Category average: 9.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Simplicity

    Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training

    Category average: 9

  • Flash Array Performance

    Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives

    Category average: 9.7

  • Power Savings

    Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives

    Category average: 8.1

Reviews

What users are saying about HPE Nimble Storage.
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HPE Nimble: Analytics and Scalability

Incentivized
Tim LillisView profile
Director of Infrastructure in Information Technology at Kent Intermediate School District (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We purchased an all SSD array a few years back and still use it in production today. Our top tier storage provider for production is PURE, but we supplement with this array for our external facing customers. We have anywhere from 7-20 customers hosted on this array at any given time.

Pros

  • Scaling - We were able to start low and scale up as needed. We have upgraded the storage amount twice.
  • Reporting - Nimble is very good at anticipating failure or incompatibilities with VMWare software upgrades.
  • Performance - Customers are always happy with the performance when their servers have been hosted on our nimble array.

Cons

  • Licensing - Cost to get back on support if lapsed is significant.

Return on Investment

  • We have been able use HPE Nimble to resell hosting space and its almost paid for itself at this point.
  • Storage upgrades were easy and we only paid for the storage we needed at any given time.
  • Firmware upgrades were non intrusive and saved the time/cost of afterhours upgrades.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

EMC VNX (Discontinued), Dell Unity XT Unified Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, Microsoft 365, PowerSchool Student Information System

All Flash in Hybrid Solution

Incentivized
Jeeva KumarView profile
Information System Manager in Information Technology at ZeOmega (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use the HPE Nimble Hybrid storage to offload some of the non production Data from the ALL FLASH storage to Nimble. Since expanding the all flash storage is not a cost effective solution, we decided to migrate all the non production Data/VM's to a Hybrid storage this maintaining a same level of IOPS, Latency and Bandwidth. Making this decision not only helped us in reducing the cost, but also helped in a good ROI without compromising on the performance of the infrastructure

Pros

  • All Flash similar Performance including Latency, I/O bandwidth
  • Integrates very well with the Vmware
  • zero downtime on firmware upgrades
  • Decent Reports

Cons

  • Would like to have a option to customize the reports based on the customer needs
  • Mapping HOSTS in the storage is a tedious task when there are more than 100 Hosts.
  • custom CLI scripts to automate the day-to-day activities

Return on Investment

  • Cost savings
  • Got a All flash similar performance
  • Happy Customer
  • zero downtime

Alternatives Considered

Dell EMC Unity, Pure Storage FlashArray and NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays

Other Software Used

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), Redgate SQL Monitor

It's not just Nimble it's agile too!

Incentivized
Scott Anderson
IT Administrator in Corporate at KPFF (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using HPE Nimble Storage for our primary and disaster recovery VMware datastores. These are setup as replication partners between our production site and our disaster recovery site to allow for quick and easy failover in the event of our production site becoming unavailable. Before using HPE Nimble Storage, we were relying on storing our backups in the cloud which would then require a long process to recover from in the event of a disaster.

Pros

  • Replicating between sites
  • Compressing data on volumes
  • Deduplicating data on volumes
  • Customer service

Cons

  • The feature set is pretty broad and could be overwhelming at first

Return on Investment

  • Made disaster recovery simple with replication
  • Simplified our VMware datastores
  • Has made reporting and alerting easier

Alternatives Considered

Dell EqualLogic PS Series

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, Veeam Backup & Replication

Positive Business Result Storage

Jagmender KharbView profile
Technical Team Lead in Information Technology at Wipro Limited (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HPE Nimble Storage are currently being used in our pre-production environments for virtualization setup. This storage user interface are easy and replication policy also easy to implement.

Pros

  • Reporting and Monitoring
  • Good Technical support from vendor
  • Easy to manage
  • Speed and performance are good what we needed.

Cons

  • We did not face any major issue with this storage devices

Return on Investment

  • Positive business result because this storage performance and stability
  • maximum uptime 99.9%
  • We did not face any major crash issue
  • HPE Nimble Storage are affordable and excellent performance

Alternatives Considered

Dell EMC Unity and IBM FlashSystem

Nimble - Great at what it does.

Incentivized
Brian Aguirre
Sr Mgr Cloud Infrastructure in Information Technology at Allstream (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use HPE Nimble storage arrays in 5 different datacenters for our virtualized environments. They provide fibre channel block storage and datacenter to datacenter replication.

Pros

  • Infosight gives great information for executives and technicians alike.
  • Interface is simple
  • Reliable

Cons

  • multi-protocol implimentation
  • cost per feature

Return on Investment

  • ROI achieved by not needing a Storage Engineer due to simplicity
  • Not able to provide NAS protocols (NFS, SMB)

Alternatives Considered

NetApp E-Series and Dell EMC Unity

Other Software Used

NetApp Active IQ, HPE InfoSight, Dell EMC Avamar