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HPE Nimble Storage

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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Learn from top reviewers

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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Good performance, easy to manage.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 12, 2019
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Marketing and Advertising Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it as our primary T1 storage to host our VM. We have 2 arrays in 2 different locations that replicate to one another for disaster recovery purposes. It's used by the whole organization. Snapshot and replication features along with integration to a lot of 3rd party apps have been very beneficial to our day to day operations.
Pros
  • Easy to manage
  • Infosight
  • 3rd party support
Cons
  • Not suitable for T2 storage due to price.
Likelihood to Recommend
Very suitable if you want to use it as primary tier 1 storage, it features easy snapshots and replication between sites, but it is not suitable if you want to use it as low tier slow storage with a lot of read-only due to the cost factor. Each shelf is easily expandable just like most storage arrays too.

Nimble Storage is easy to deploy in a secure and convenient way.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 05, 2022
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Utilities Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We added Nimble Storage part to replace Hitachi Storage solution which actually was the end of support life. The reason to buy Nimble storage was to expand our SAN and NAS requirement growing in our environment.
Pros
  • Reliable storage for VDI.
  • Scalability
  • Less complexity.
Cons
  • No dedicated sales team or support engineer.
Likelihood to Recommend
Ease of deployment, management of Nimble web portal.

Nimble Storage

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 18, 2019
CJ
Curtis Jackson
Network Admin
School City of Hammond (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our Nimble storage array is used as SAN storage for our VMWare infrastructure across the district. It is fast storage and easy to manage.
Pros
  • Storage is fast
  • Easy to manage
  • Augments our VMware environment as a SAN datastore
Cons
  • For our usage, there are no problems
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very well suited for VMware infrastructure usage including VDI deployment. We were able to spin up the hybrid storage as a datastore in our VMware environment quickly and easily. There is a plugin available for VMware vCenter to assist with datastore maintenance including resizing, cloning, deleting, and creating snapshots. The management console is easy to use and gives insight into space utilization and monitoring. Software updates are also very simple.

Nimble Storage - a great solution for our growth

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 06, 2016
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Nimble Storage is our primary SAN device for hosting Windows servers and a few management Linux machines. We use VMWare hosts with Nimble. We use Nimble to host internal AD servers, websites and storage servers. The entire organization has access to the server farm as end users. I manage Nimble and the associated devices.
Pros
  • Really good management interface, can monitor pace and performance easily.
  • Nimble Infosight software helps plan future needs.
  • Nimble heartbeat monitoring helps me know that Nimble support backs me up as to status of a unit. As a one man shop, it's hard to be on top of everything.
Cons
  • The web interface can be sluggish at times, but this is pretty typical of most of my internal use interfaces.
  • I would like to drill down on the snapshots but they take volumes. We wouldn't want to restore a volume typically, we would want to restore an individual server, but the Nimble setup was not done by me and setup could have been better.
  • During setup, our Nimble install was checked by the local rep and he tore down the setup and caused a lot of extra work on the team; his skill level was very basic compared to my contracted install help
Likelihood to Recommend
We use our Nimble for a Windows Server farm of web and database servers. We also have some P2V legacy servers where the hardware is obsolescent, but we still can use the OS and legacy software as we migrate into new versions of the software.

Nimble Storage - an "A Team" product. Easy to use and deploy across multiple sites.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 22, 2016
NT
Nicolas Tenthorey
Help Desk Manager
Paramount Equity (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have two Nimble storage arrays. One array is located in our HQ and the other at an offsite data center. These devices work together in perfect harmony. They are connected via an MPLS network and are constantly syncing our volumes. We have Hyper-V hosts at both locations and the Nimble serves as NAS for these hosts.
Pros
  • Snapshot scheduling is very easy to do.
  • Cloning volumes to create new VM's very easy.
  • Adding additional storage very simple. Plug and play.
Cons
  • Firmware updates could be improved, possibly automated.
  • Cost is a bit high per GB compared to alternatives.
  • Data restoration process could be improved. Right now we have to clone volume and attach to server. A webpage data explorer would be nice.
Likelihood to Recommend
Nimble Storage is well suited for a Hyper-V or VMware environment where fast network attached storage is demanded.
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