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HPE Nimble Storage

Overview

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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HPE Nimble: Analytics and Scalability

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 4, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 fo...
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Tim Lillis
Director - Information Technology
Director of Infrastructure
Kent Intermediate School District
HPE Nimble Storage25 years of experience

Positive Business Result Storage

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 1, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
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 ...
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Jagmender Kharb
Consultant - Information Technology
Technical Team Lead
Wipro Limited
HPE Nimble Storage10 years of experience

Nimble - Great at what it does.

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 3, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Brian Aguirre
Manager - Information Technology
Sr Mgr Cloud Infrastructure
Allstream
HPE Nimble Storage6 years of experience

All Flash in Hybrid Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 2, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 effec...
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Jeeva Kumar
Manager - Information Technology
Information System Manager
ZeOmega
HPE Nimble Storage1 year of experience

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 2, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 ...
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Scott Anderson
Administrator - Corporate
IT Administrator
KPFF
HPE Nimble Storage1 year of experience
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Product Demos

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI - Adding a new server using Stack Manager

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Managing HPE Nimble Storage using Stack Manager

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Features

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.

8.7
Avg 9.0
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Product Details

What is HPE Nimble Storage?

HPE Nimble Storage Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

Reviewers rate Flash Array Integration and Data Compression and Non-Intrusive Upgrades highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of HPE Nimble Storage are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Nimble Storage - Excellent choice

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 03, 2018
JK
Jeff Koelker
IT Security and Network Manager
DuTrac Community Credit Union (Financial Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The Nimble storage device is our primary source of network based storage. We house all of our virtual servers on this device which includes our test environment as well as our production environment. We noticed an enormous leap in ease of management as well as performance when comparing this device to our previous NetApp storage device.
Pros
  • GUI based interface for ease of management
  • No downtime for firmware/software upgrades
  • Integration with other vendors such as Veeam for backups and disaster recovery
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Nimble is able to handle a multitude of data repositories very well by applying "performance policies" to their storage volumes. This allows you to fine tune your environment and ensure mission critical repositories always have the appropriate resources attached to them where as your test volumes would get less. Some organizations may not need a separate storage device for their virtual machines and may opt to have their storage they use be built right into their hypervisor. Either way would work but I trust the Nimble equipment to house my data with that being their primary objective.
Return on Investment
  • We've had to spend less time managing the product daily due to its ease of use within the GUI.
  • Upgrades are easier so there is less research to be done ahead of time compared to our last product.
  • Nimble came in quite a bit cheaper than other competitors when we upgraded our storage environment.
Alternatives Considered
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 the same backplane. However, they were cost prohibitive for our needs. It then came down to the NetApp and Nimble options. The device being replaced was a NetApp so we were already familiar with them. When it came down to it though, the NetApp replacement was more costly, less intuitive and I was unimpressed with managing one for the previous 5 years. I was ready for a change and couldn't be happier with the end result.
Other Software Used

Nimble SAN revew

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 16, 2014
LA
Larry Askew
IT Systems Engineer
Transwest (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We needed small SANs, each to support VMWare HA clusters at different sites. We needed ease of use, good data/reporting, minimal rack space and lastly, while our performance needs could have been met by a wide range of products, we didn't want that to be a limiting factor down the road. While we have a range of server types running on the Nimble arrays, MS SQL servers and application servers are the most important.
Pros
  • The data available from the dashboard/UI is really great.
  • Nimble's tech support, not only for their product directly but also digging well into VMWare and working with VMWare tech support on one particularly difficult problem was impressive. They didn't draw a line and begin to ask that we contact another vendor.
  • The performance is really quite good. While our applications don't push the array at all, I was able to drive impressive IOPS using SQLIO. The numbers were particularly impressive considering ours is 1GB iSCSI.
Cons
  • One of our arrays has had no hardware failures at all while the other has had a failed power supply and controller. Both caused alerts to be generated and Nimble contacted us to ship the replacement components, so I suppose that's a weakness and strength in one.
  • While compression is a great thing, it does cause some confusion in terms of capacity when looking at vCenter and the Nimble web based UI. Somewhere between thin provisioning, multiple VMs per partition and compression, I sometimes find it difficult to know exactly where one might be tight on space.
Likelihood to Recommend
Really anybody needing a high performing iSCSI SAN with great performance, ease of use and support would be well served by the Nimble, that is if cost isn't a primary deciding factor.
Return on Investment
  • In our environment the financial impact is really in terms of time we don't spend managing the storage. Nimble gives us quick access to useful information allowing us to focus on the servers, applications and networks.
  • As stated before, our applications don't cause our Nimble arrays to begin to sweat, but if our application environment becomes more demanding, we have lots of headroom which should eliminate the need to move to another platform.
Alternatives Considered
With the offerings available at the time in a similar price range, we perceived Nimble to offer better performance, better UI resulting in ease of configuration and ongoing access to information about the array and a minimal rack space requirement. Those were the differences we focused on.
Likelihood to Renew
9
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.
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