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Users have found several key use cases for HPE Nimble Hybrid storage. One common use case is offloading non-production data from their …
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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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- Non-Intrusive Upgrades (11)9.898%
- Simplicity (11)9.696%
- Flash Array Performance (10)9.696%
- Data Compression (10)9.696%
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Nimble Storage was acquired by HPE in 2017. The enterprise flash array product line now goes by the name HPE Nimble Storage.
Reviewers rate Non-Intrusive Upgrades highest, with a score of 9.8.
The most common users of HPE Nimble Storage are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Users have found several key use cases for HPE Nimble Hybrid storage. One common use case is offloading non-production data from their all-flash storage, resulting in cost reduction while maintaining the same level of performance. Another use case is using HPE Nimble Storage for primary and disaster recovery VMware datastores, allowing for quick and easy failover in case of a production site failure. Users have also reported that the Nimble storage device serves as the primary source of network-based storage, providing improved ease of management and performance compared to previous storage devices. Additionally, Nimble CS210 storage units have been used across organizations to enable snapshot backups and cross replication for disaster recovery. Overall, users have experienced improved performance, ease of management, and cost savings by utilizing HPE Nimble Hybrid storage for various use cases in their environments.
Intuitive User Interface: Users have praised the intuitive and user-friendly interface of Nimble Storage. They find it easy to navigate and manage the storage system, without requiring extensive training or technical expertise. The simplicity of the GUI-based interface has been specifically highlighted as a major advantage.
Excellent Customer Service: Nimble Storage's customer service and technical support have received high praise from users. Reviewers appreciate the knowledge and responsiveness of the support engineers who provide prompt assistance in resolving issues effectively. The proactive support approach, where Nimble reaches out to users before they even report an issue, has been particularly appreciated.
High Performance: Users commend the impressive performance of Nimble Storage. The all-flash storage system is described as exceptionally fast, with instant completion of storage operations. This high performance, combined with low latency, proves advantageous for applications that demand intense I/O operations.
Customization of Reports: Some users have expressed the need for an option to customize reports based on their specific customer needs. They feel that having this capability would greatly enhance their experience with the product.
Mapping Hosts in Storage: Several reviewers have found mapping HOSTS in the storage to be a tedious task, especially when there are more than 100 Hosts involved. This process can become time-consuming and complex, leading to frustration among users.
Lack of CLI Script Customization: Users desire custom CLI scripts to automate day-to-day activities but feel that the current options are not sufficient for their needs. They believe that having the ability to create and customize CLI scripts would improve efficiency and streamline their workflow.
Users commonly recommend the following when it comes to HPE Nimble Storage:
- Attend free training classes to learn about storage setup and configuration.
- Leverage a trusted Value Added Reseller for a successful implementation.
- Use sizing tools to appropriately size the environment.
Users find HPE Nimble Storage easy to implement and praise the support staff. They believe that it is a cost-effective solution with world-class customer support. Additionally, many users highly recommend choosing HPE Nimble Storage over other competitors if budget allows, as they consider it a well-put-together product at a great purchase price.
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February 02, 2022
All Flash in Hybrid Solution
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
- All Flash similar Performance including Latency, I/O bandwidth
- Integrates very well with the Vmware
- zero downtime on firmware upgrades
- Decent Reports
- 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
February 02, 2022
It's not just Nimble it's agile too!
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.
- Replicating between sites
- Compressing data on volumes
- Deduplicating data on volumes
- Customer service
- The feature set is pretty broad and could be overwhelming at first
December 17, 2019
The best storage solution available if you have the budget
Nimble is used as the core storage for our virtual infrastructure at two of our sites. The high availability and reliability of the hardware have meant that in the entire time we have been using it, we have never had any company downtime due to the Nimble storage. Due to the failover ability between the controllers, it also means that it can be kept up to date without needing to schedule in downtime each time, allowing us to be more secure.
- Failover between controllers which enables high availability.
- High speed access of data, all of our server applications can run easily using this storage.
- Having more customisation for reports on storage would be useful in capacity planning- allowing for more granular views on storage usage over a set period of time (i.e. broken down by datastore, or even VM).
September 19, 2019
Implementation of an HPE Nimble Hybrid Array for Backup/DR
We are using the HPE Nimble Storage array as our secondary (backup) storage array for the corporation. Alongside our backup software, we use the array and software to transfer nightly primary array data to the backup array in a fully hydrated system while utilizing their deduplication to improve storage retention.
- Performance.
- Reporting and monitoring.
- Customer service.
- Technical support.
- HPE purchases have impacted Nimble's sales channels.
- Not as fast as some of the competitors on the market.
- RMC, HPE's backup software is only compatible with other HPE arrays and not universal.
November 29, 2018
Nimble is the right fit for me and should be for you as well
We use our Nimble Storage as our primary production storage solution. We run our ERP and all other domain servers off of it and have excellent performance. We originally purchased it with 1 gig networking on the controllers to enable us to buy in at a cheaper price. We have now upgraded to 10 gig and also upgraded our ISCSI, switching back end to 10 gig as well and have seen a huge boost to throughput and a dive in latency seen by the VMs in Infosight's VM-Vision Logging. Sometimes a 75-80% drop in latency caused predominantly by our networking. It mostly addressed the issues we were having with our old EqualLogic Array with huge latency in the 45-150ms range.The inline de-duplication and compression technologies allowed us to buy small. The fact that the storage came with an A-shelf fully populated and B-shelf empty, we were able to populate that later on and grow the device without growing the footprint.
- INFOSIGHT!!! It is, in my opinion, the revolution in IT that I have been waiting for. It opens and closes cases for me automatically and even when I have a problem that Support knows about it tells me how to fix it with a patch or something else.
- Deduplication and Compression Inline. This has saved me legitimately double the space. So I have 13TB of data and only 5.5TB on the SAN.
- The simplicity of the Interface is key, I don't have time to go digging through a bunch of configurations to get to what I need.
- Live Support is incredible. By utilizing Infosight for all the small cases they only hire level 3 techs and they know more than just Nimble. On many occasions they have walked me through VMware issues as well so I didn't have to open a case with VMware also.
- Speed and Performance is just what we needed. I will not say it's the best as in "top dog", but for what we paid I am getting enterprise class speed and performance and 99.9999% up time.
- They offer free training classes for potential customers, current customers, and VARS all the time.
- I think the HPE transition has been a little rough and I think things are getting better, but the interface changes they have made are a little strange sometimes.
November 21, 2018
Nimble is the no compromises, best of all worlds, storage solution
Our HPE Nimble SAN is the core storage backend for our virtualization infrastructure. This allows us to leverage VMware cluster capabilities for high availability. We have utilized Nimble for the last 4 years and it is our only storage solution for the entire organization. It provides a self tuning "set it and forget it" storage for our growing enterprise.
- 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.
- We haven't experienced any cons in 4 years. It's divine.
September 27, 2018
Good and reliable Storage system, I highly recommend Nimble Storage for all of your SAN storage needs!
We are using HPE Nimble Storage arrays in our VMware environment hosting all our VM Servers. The entire organization has access to the server farm as end users and I manage Nimble and the associated devices. We have 2 HPE Nimble Storage with replication configured.
- Ease of use and price. Its competitively priced and has great expansion options based on the base model.
- Deduplication Feature gives really good compression of data, Snapshot is really easy and restores as well. World class customer experience.
- I like how Nimble uses flash storage. The virtual machines I have residing on our Nimble preform disk writes cleanly and quickly.
- Lack of an active active configuration, if they would change this it would change our us of them.
- The company at the time was nimble alone and was a little rocky to deal with.
We are currently servicing our entire VMware workload using Nimble Storage, including production systems as well as development and testing. The Nimble solution replaced a scale computing storage cluster we had for 5 years, and the difference is night and day. Everything in our environment is now instant, automatic, and reliable.
- The InfoSight Predictive Analytics portal is a phenomenal value-add for the Nimble platform, especially the VMvision component, which gives incredible visibility into the entire virtualization stack.
- The storage itself (we are using all-flash) is blistering fast; all storage operations, from regular I/O to volume provisioning, complete instantly.
- Nimble's proactive support is second to none - During deployment, I took down the array to move it from our workbench to the rack, and within minutes Nimble called me to ask if we know our array is down.
- Nimble's support engineers are top-notch: When you call Nimble, you're talking to a tier-3 engineer. No lengthy phone trees, no call dispatching and waiting for a callback.
- Nimble recently got purchased by HP Enterprise, and I've NEVER heard anyone excited about their vendor being acquired by HP.
- The clever little experimental features added to the "Lab" section of InfoSight don't get added to the main product quickly enough!
- The awesome green "bling" LEDs on the front only come in green - ideally, I'd like them to be blue, or even purple.
March 22, 2016
Nimble Storage - Highly Recommended
We are using the Nimble Storage Array in our current VDI Environment. Last year when we decided to upgrade our old infrastructure with newer equipment, the question of storage came up and we needed to find a device that could handle our workload plus be easy to scale and have manageability. Our search took us to Nimble, which was already a leader in storage using adaptive flash arrays. Their patented CASL (Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout) was extremely impressive in I/O reduction and performance. The enhanced quickness could be seen immediately on our SQL servers, resulting in faster VDI times and related services. Nimble also has tie-in compatibility with other big named technology such as Cisco (SmartStack Integration) and VMware SRM (SAN Replication). This allowed it to easily be used with our Cisco USC and with our Disaster Recovery Site where we used VMware's Site Recovery Manager. It should also be noted that the Nimble team was extremely helpful during our POC (proof of concept), implementation, and post implementation. They provided knowledge, insight, and training to our group and were always ready to help, if we needed assistance.
- CASL (Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout) - basically the backbone of their OS that allows them to be so efficient in speed.
- Management Portal - Insight offers storage management and predictive analytics (prescriptive guidance).
- Support - Excellent support model. All representative were very knowledgeable and could assist or expedite to someone who could.
- Price - the Nimble Solution is on the high end of the storage market.
- Hybrid Flash solution - part SSD, part HDD. There is rumor that an all Flash Array is coming soon - Q3?
- Education - not much in formal training is available for this product. There is a class given by Nimble but is not thorough enough to teach someone to be certified in using Nimble.