HPE Nimble Storage vs HPE StoreOnce

• Nimble provides top notch predictive flash caching that "just works". We typically see 95% + cache hits daily.
• World class support... You typically don't' call Nimble support when there are problems, they call you.
• The Nimble hybrid array is a cost effective solution with no compromises.
• Infosight, the cloud management dashboard, is easy to use and provides quick access to useful information.
• Our Nimble has had 100% uptime, 4 years and counting.

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• It handles the storage on a DRP quite well.
• It was not that hard to implement it, even though 3Par was easier.
• Setting it up on vSphere was painless.
• It was easy to link the paths on a couple VIOSes.

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• 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.

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• HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Stores do not have a native replication. You will have to rely on third party software to backup your backup files from primary StoreOnce to secondary StoreOnce.
• We also see disconnects in the HPE StoreOnce Catalyst RMAN Plugin. We are still trying to figure out if this is a StoreOnce issue or something with our network.

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• People walked by my office for the first time ever asking what did we do to the servers because they are much faster. I have never experienced that before when putting in a new piece of equipment.
• It has paid for itself in space savings of not having to increase the size of the array.
• Speed and performance and data migration times are all parts of my ROI. Its been a great ride so far.

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• While not completely eliminating tape, it has relegated the use of tape to monthly and annual backups for compliance. It has reduced the recurring expense of tape media.
• It has increased the length of the retention period because of its efficiency in storing backups.
• The online backup repositories are now replicated to the secondary datacenter, a capability not possible with tapes.

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