Overall Satisfaction with Nimble
Nimble is being used as our primary and backup iSCSI SAN for the enterprise public safety and non-public safety departments. It has been in production since 2015. We have 2 CS3000 with 4 shelfs working with approximately 300tb of production data.
- Nimble has yet to fail our enterprise yet
- Nimble support is outstanding
- Nimble web ui is easy to work with
- Nimble has proactive insights and monitoring
- I dont like the functionality aspect of how one of the controllers is always on standby, they dont load balance, meaning you can be on the same controller for the life of the appliance
- The 4.x firmware was pretty buggy and it gave off a lot of temp alarms
- We have been able to keep them online past EOL \ EOS which has saved some money
- If we were not going to go with HCI, we would have purchased again
I think they are neck in neck. Nimble might be cheaper and their customer support might be just a smidge better. I would be happy with both products.
Do you think Nimble delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Nimble's feature set?
Yes
Did Nimble live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Nimble go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Nimble again?
Yes