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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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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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Nimble performance that won't slow down your budget.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 20, 2017
JJ
Jeremy Judnic
Network Administrator
M-B Companies (Machinery, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Nimble Storage to support our main data center VMWare environment. This main data center contains Exchange, Sharepoint and our ERP systems, as well some various other tier 2 applications and test environments. The majority of our user base uses these applications on a daily basis. We bought this Nimble unit to replace a EMC unit mostly due to differences in cost.
Pros
  • Great support, some of the best I've dealt with in my 9 years in IT.
  • De-duplication and compression features. These have allowed us to run test environments of our tier 1 applications at almost no drive cost. Our data center is around 7TB but the utilization on the nimble is about 3.5TB.
  • Ease of use. Web GUI is straightforward and easy to navigate.
Cons
  • Faster Web GUI performance. Can be a little sluggish at times, even though it is easy to use it may take some time to load certain forms or items.
  • Large physical footprint. This is a 3U unit that has 8TB usable, would be nice to have a smaller rack footprint.
  • Quick access to see which data is currently on the flash storage. The Nimble unit we use is a hybrid HDD and flash array which moves the data around when it is being utilized the most. I am not aware of a way to see this information on the fly.
Likelihood to Recommend
Nimble Storage is well suited to small/mid sized environments who are budget conscious. We asked another vendor for a similar unit and it was over 100K, while this Nimble unit was less than 50K. It allowed us to provide a high amount of iOPs without breaking the bank to a good amount of applications in our VMWare cluster.

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 - Great at what it does.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 03, 2022
BA
Brian Aguirre
Sr Mgr Cloud Infrastructure
Allstream (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Infosight gives great information for executives and technicians alike.
  • Interface is simple
  • Reliable
Cons
  • multi-protocol implimentation
  • cost per feature
Likelihood to Recommend
Performance overviews are very simple in the infosight dashboards. Replication an protection policies are easy to setup.

Looking at Nimble Storage? I hope you like consistently sub-millisecond latency!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 23, 2017
BG
Bear Golightly
IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager
Nashville Wraps (Wholesale, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Do you like fast, reliable storage and work for a company that likes to invest in performance? Nimble is for you. Is your organization miserly with storage spending? Nimble is not for you.

Nimble Storage - Highly Recommended

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 22, 2016
AN
Anthony Nguyen
Sr VDI Administrator
Direct Energy (Utilities, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
If using a virtualized environment, especially with virtualized SQL, Nimble Storage with all it's features would be highly recommended.
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