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HPE Nimble Storage

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

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 5, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 req...
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Verified user
Consultant
HPE Nimble Storage5 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

Jack Be Nimble

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 12, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We used two Nimble CS210 as storage across the whole organization. We were able to migrate 98% of our physical hardware to 2 Hyper-V clusters that were cross replicated betwee...
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Sam Fowler
General Manager - Information Technology
IT Manager
Foundation for California Community Colleges
HPE Nimble Storage5 years of experience

Great product

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 24, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It is used as the primary and secondary Sans. I put it in 5 years ago and then last year we upgraded to an all-flash array with 2x the storage we had. It stored all the server...
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Verified user
Team Lead
HPE Nimble Storage5 years of experience

The best storage solution available if you have the budget

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 17, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Verified user
Engineer
HPE Nimble Storage5 years of experience

HPE Nimble boxes are a great choice for any organization, small or large.

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 12, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Nimble Storage to host our CSV and shared volumes among our Microsoft Hyper-v Cluster Hosts. Each user at our company relies on it to serve data to them each day. When ...
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Verified user
Manager
HPE Nimble Storage7 years of experience

Implementation of an HPE Nimble Hybrid Array for Backup/DR

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 19, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Omar Khalid
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Information Technology Analyst
Ricoh Printing Systems America, Inc.
HPE Nimble Storage5 years of experience

Good performance, easy to manage.

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 12, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 wh...
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Verified user
Manager
HPE Nimble Storage2 years of experience

Nimble Storage

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 18, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our Nimble storage array is used as SAN storage for our VMWare infrastructure across the district. It is fast storage and easy to manage.
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Curtis Jackson
Technician - Information Technology
Network Admin
School City of Hammond
HPE Nimble Storage3 years of experience

Nimble Storage - Excellent choice

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 3, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Jeff Koelker
Manager - Information Technology
IT Security and Network Manager
DuTrac Community Credit Union
HPE Nimble Storage1 year of experience

Nimble is the right fit for me and should be for you as well

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 29, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 purch...
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Verified user
Manager
HPE Nimble Storage2 years of experience

Nimble, a breath of fresh air!

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 28, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are using Nimble for our high end applications run on VMware. It is used for all virtual machines running all company applications, citrix farms, sql servers, web applicati...
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Lee Holland, CISSP
Director - Information Technology
Director of Information Systems
Okland Construction
HPE Nimble Storage3 years of experience
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Product Demos

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Features

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

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

9.5
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Product Details

What is HPE Nimble Storage?

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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 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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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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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Positive Business Result Storage

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 01, 2022
JK
Jagmender Kharb
Technical Team Lead
Wipro Limited (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
10 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
HPE Nimble Storage are well suited for type of work and environments. This storage are easily manage the huge amount of data with high performance. This storage good for virtual environment, easy to implement the replication policy. This storage well suited for VMware Infrastructure usage include VDI deployment. We were able to spin up the hybrid storage as datastore in our VMware environment.

All Flash in Hybrid Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 02, 2022
JK
Jeeva Kumar
Information System Manager
ZeOmega (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
1 year of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
HPE Nimble Hybrid storage is very cost effective that can provide the same Latency, I/O and Bandwidth compared with any other All FLASH storage which is 3 times expensive than this. From a feature comparison standpoint of view, there isn't much difference between Hybrid Vs ALL Flash. HPE Nimble Storage uses ALL Flash disk at the front end to process the data thus by reducing the cost by using a regular SAS disk at the back end. Its the software and the algorithm that HPE Nimble StorageE uses to achieve this. having said that, the overall data reduction, de-duplication and compression is above the mark as what the sales team promised initially. Overall, the storage is performing well without any challenges.

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 02, 2022
SA
Scott Anderson
IT Administrator
KPFF (Architecture & Planning, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
1 year of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
HPE Nimble Storage has very impressive deduplication and compression built into their systems. There is really no need to configure anything as it is taking care of automatically at the firmware layer. If you are not planning on utilizing the replication between partners it may very well suite you to find a less expensive option, but this was a feature that we needed.

Jack Be Nimble

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 12, 2020
SF
Sam Fowler
IT Manager
Foundation for California Community Colleges (Non-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
5 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
Small organizations with enough budget and are in a full refresh project where they can justify the cost. Organizations only going through a partial refresh may not be able to justify the cost or have all of the hardware (network for iSCSI) to support the requirements.

Great product

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 24, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
5 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Pretty much any medium or high-performance applications and server hosting. I would use it where you need a traditional SAN. The models we had were the hybrid or all-flash. On the market, they have similar performance specs, but in real-time use, the all-flash array did laps around the hybrid flash one.

The best storage solution available if you have the budget

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 17, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
5 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
In an environment where high availability is key, Nimble is excellent. In the five years I've used it, it has never caused downtime for my company. Even when repairs, physical or software, have been required (which has not been often), the failover process between controllers has worked perfectly, and there has been no interruption to services hosted on the device.

HPE Nimble boxes are a great choice for any organization, small or large.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 12, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
7 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
HPE Nimble is well suited for any situation where a company wants a stand along or synced across the WAN San solution without needing to invest in too much training for the admins. Since they sell both partly SSD based cache devices as well as all SSD devices, they have the best of both worlds whether you need consistently fast storage with some front end cache or high-level box that is always serving up fast. As in our case, it is also well suited as a back end iScsi based box for cluster scenarios.

If a company is just looking for Standard hard drive storage then Nimble is overkill.

Implementation of an HPE Nimble Hybrid Array for Backup/DR

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
September 19, 2019
OK
Omar Khalid
Senior Information Technology Analyst
Ricoh Printing Systems America, Inc. (Printing, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
5 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
We Primarily use HPE Nimble for:
  • Primary storage for a SAN environment.
  • Backup storage for a SAN environment.
  • A full HPE network where Infosight can be utilized from the servers to the network level.
  • Secondary replication source.
  • Cloud using Nimble Cloud volumes for Disaster Recovery.

Good performance, easy to manage.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 12, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
2 years of experience
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

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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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 - 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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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.

Nimble is the right fit for me and should be for you as well

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 29, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
2 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
I think any small to medium business and enterprise would be able to use this storage. I am not used to working in the enterprise space so I cannot say exactly but I think the ROI on this storage is incredible and is worth looking at. I assume in a petabyte or more environment things might get a little tricky, but I think at the last class I was in they mentioned they can handle that as well. I think they are a great fit for most any situation.

HPE Nimble Storage - Great Solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 28, 2018
PN
Paul Nicholson
IT Director
The Wills Group, Inc (Consumer Services, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
5 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
HPE Nimble has worked great for our Windows and SQL Servers. For low usage SQL servers, you may have to pin items into cache so you don't experience slowdowns. If the box is sized correctly, it can handle most loads. It does not do great on data warehouse scenarios where large datasets get recreated daily.

Nimble brings the flexibility that growing companies need.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 26, 2018
Likelihood to Recommend
Nimble is ideal for a production VM environment. The performance boosts you will gain from using Flash storage is noticeable at nearly every level. However, I would not advise using Nimble for DR as the cost is hefty for storage that you will likely not need to utilize often. Whether you are a large business or a small business, Nimble can scale to fit your needs.

Nimble is the no compromises, best of all worlds, storage solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 21, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
4 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Nimble has simplified storage for organizations of any size. If you're a small to medium organization that has enterprise storage requirements, Nimble can help you meet that need without having to have a storage engineer on staff. Nimble also has larger arrays that scale to provide solutions for large environments, while also reducing costs compared to other storage vendors.

Good and reliable Storage system, I highly recommend Nimble Storage for all of your SAN storage needs!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 27, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
4 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
HPE Nimble Storage provided the best performance per dollar. We were able to decommission our legacy NetApp system which resulted in higher performance, reduced size in our rack, and lower costs than replacing with a competitive NetApp product. Other vendors were considered though none could match the overall value of the Nimble solution. ”

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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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 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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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
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
3 years of experience
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 Keeping It Awesome

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 16, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
HPE Nimble Storage
3 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Nimble Storage works well for storage of anything. It is fast and reliable. Nimble storage is great for virtual machines, SQL databases, exchange, backups, and anything else you would put on a SAN. Nimble is especially good at compression and consolidation. If you have a rack now with 24U of storage, you can most likely knock that down to 4U with Nimble. You get more space for your money on both storage and rack space.
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