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.
Positive Business Result Storage
Nimble Storage is easy to deploy in a secure and convenient way.
Nimble - Great at what it does.
All Flash in Hybrid Solution
It's not just Nimble it's agile too!
Jack Be Nimble
Great product
The best storage solution available if you have the budget
HPE Nimble boxes are a great choice for any organization, small or large.
Implementation of an HPE Nimble Hybrid Array for Backup/DR
Good performance, easy to manage.
Nimble Storage
Nimble Storage - Excellent choice
Nimble is the right fit for me and should be for you as well
Nimble, a breath of fresh air!
Popular Features
- 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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HPE Nimble Storage dHCI - Adding a new server using Stack Manager
Managing HPE Nimble Storage using Stack Manager
Features
Enterprise Flash Array Storage
All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.
- 9.6Flash Array Performance(10) Ratings
Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives
- 9.7Flash Array Integration(9) Ratings
Integration with hypervisors and applications
- 9.6Data Compression(10) Ratings
Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements
- 9.8Non-Intrusive Upgrades(11) Ratings
Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required
- 9.6Simplicity(11) Ratings
Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training
- 8.9Power Savings(10) Ratings
Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives
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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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(1-25 of 27)Positive Business Result Storage
- Positive business result because this storage performance and stability
- maximum uptime 99.9%
- We did not face any major crash issue
- HPE Nimble Storage are affordable and excellent performance
Nimble Storage is easy to deploy in a secure and convenient way.
- Time savings about 55-60% faster to resolve issues.
- Improved data storage management.
Nimble - Great at what it does.
- ROI achieved by not needing a Storage Engineer due to simplicity
- Not able to provide NAS protocols (NFS, SMB)
All Flash in Hybrid Solution
- Cost savings
- Got a All flash similar performance
- Happy Customer
- zero downtime
It's not just Nimble it's agile too!
- Made disaster recovery simple with replication
- Simplified our VMware datastores
- Has made reporting and alerting easier
Jack Be Nimble
- Positive - Storage for all VM's.
- Negative - ROI was longer than other storage but performance gains justified the increase of time.
Great product
- Didn't take much time from me.
- Very little maintenance required.
The best storage solution available if you have the budget
- It has allowed for greater expansion of the network, as it is far higher capacity than we were previously using.
- For my company, even a few hours downtime can cost us tens of thousands of pounds, so to have had zero downtime caused by storage (whereas previously we had normal hardware issues, such as failing hard drives, take out services) has been greatly valued.
- Nimble's snapshot capability has saved us several times. It would be hard to estimate the amount of money we would have had to spend, in additional support, without the capability to quickly revert a LUN/VM back to its previous state. Much better than relying on VMware or MS Snapshots.
- Having the Nimble has allowed us the capability to build better and faster clusters which in turns as allowed our users to do more work in less time.
- Nimble can be expensive to start off with so initially it took a while for our ROI to turn positive.
Implementation of an HPE Nimble Hybrid Array for Backup/DR
- Reduction of legacy backup systems.
- The decrease in the amount of user intervention to manage and maintain backups.
- Improved SLAs for backup and recovery.
Good performance, easy to manage.
- Great purchase price.
- Bad renewal cost.
Nimble Storage
- Allowed for use of additional space for our VDI deployment in VMware
- Easy management has allowed for reduced time spent on monitoring
Nimble Storage - Excellent choice
- 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.
Nimble is the right fit for me and should be for you as well
- People walked by my office for the first time ever asking what did we do to the servers because they are much faster. I have never experienced that before when putting in a new piece of equipment.
- It has paid for itself in space savings of not having to increase the size of the array.
- Speed and performance and data migration times are all parts of my ROI. Its been a great ride so far.
Nimble, a breath of fresh air!
- It has turned managing storage into a walk-in-the-park. Does not require full time labor to manage which increases the ROI greatly.
HPE Nimble Storage - Great Solution
- Support cost dramatically reduced
- SQL Server performance more than doubled compared to old storage
Nimble brings the flexibility that growing companies need.
- Employee experience is a positive impact and allows our staff to be more efficient because they can access network resources quicker than in a spinning disk infrastructure
- Initial start-up cost was steep as we needed multiple controllers and 17 TB of data, but once you work the startup cost out of the way maintenance is comparable to other solutions.
Great company, great support and rock solid performance!
- We have a great disaster recovery plan that now is possible because of our Nimble arrays.
Nimble is the no compromises, best of all worlds, storage solution
- 100% uptime 4 years and counting in a 24/7 environment.
- Long hardware support lifecycle, with extremely affordable maintenance renewal plans that provide real value.
- Nimble has been the most cost-effective SAN solution I have ever deployed.
- The inital costs, ongoing maintenance, and administration requirements were all 50% less than EMC and NetApp.
Good and reliable Storage system, I highly recommend Nimble Storage for all of your SAN storage needs!
- The device has worked as expected since installation. Higher performance than NetApp and easier to maintain.
- Nimble storage is affordable and great performance SAN.
- Our Nimble array has experienced a total of one incident, which had zero impact on the business, since installation.
- Our previous solution had at least one incident a month, each of which brought production to its knees for a while, costing us thousands (or tens of thousands) per incident.
- We have now automated many of our storage operations, eliminating both human work and human error from ongoing operational and development work.
Nimble performance that won't slow down your budget.
- We have been able to increase the amount of data we can use without increasing the cost of that data using the de-duplication and compression features. We have been able to utilize 7TB of Virtual Machine data but the footprint is only 3.5TB after de-duplication and compression.
- This unit cost significantly less than the competitors unit we compared it to, under half the cost for similar iOPs.
Nimble Storage - a great solution for our growth
- From the IT perspective, Nimble has been a great return on investment. We are able to do things we were not able to do before, I can spin up a new server for testing or deployment in a matter of minutes.
- Also for IT, I am able to test Linux and Windows machines and delete them after I am done testing. This has allowed a lot of flexibility for me and saved time and expense of not needing additional hardware.
- The business side has not seen the return on their investment yet, but that is primarily that the management has a different focus and hasn't fully developed a budget for the changes from a physical to virtual environment.
Nimble Storage Keeping It Awesome
- Consolidated space in our rack at our data center. Legacy storage was 12U. By switching to Nimble we only had to use 4U and saved 8U for other expansion needed. We didn't have add another rack saving $1,200 a month.
- We haven't had any issues with Nimble in 3 years. Our up time has been 100% with the SAN. Firmware updates have been flawless.
Nimble Storage - Highly Recommended
- Faster VDI's (performance in virtual desktops)
- VDI related services (AppSense, Citrix, VMware)
- DR (data replication) - ideal for our DR solution