#1 most frequent
United States of America
70.9%613 installations of 864
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Flash Array Integration
Integration with hypervisors and applications
Category average: 9.2
Data Compression
Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements
Category average: 7.5
Non-Intrusive Upgrades
Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required
Category average: 8.9
Areas for Improvement
Simplicity
Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training
Category average: 9.2
Flash Array Performance
Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives
Category average: 8.8
Power Savings
Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives
Category average: 7.9
Who Buys & Uses HPE Nimble Storage
#2 most frequent
Canada
6.5%56 installations of 864
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.8%50 installations of 864
HPE Nimble: Analytics and Scalability
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 for our external facing customers. We have anywhere from 7-20 customers hosted on this array at any given time.
Pros
- Scaling - We were able to start low and scale up as needed. We have upgraded the storage amount twice.
- Reporting - Nimble is very good at anticipating failure or incompatibilities with VMWare software upgrades.
- Performance - Customers are always happy with the performance when their servers have been hosted on our nimble array.
Cons
- Licensing - Cost to get back on support if lapsed is significant.
Return on Investment
- We have been able use HPE Nimble to resell hosting space and its almost paid for itself at this point.
- Storage upgrades were easy and we only paid for the storage we needed at any given time.
- Firmware upgrades were non intrusive and saved the time/cost of afterhours upgrades.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
EMC VNX (Discontinued), Dell Unity XT Unified Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray
Other Software Used
VMware ESXi, Microsoft 365, PowerSchool Student Information System
All Flash in Hybrid Solution
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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
Pros
- All Flash similar Performance including Latency, I/O bandwidth
- Integrates very well with the Vmware
- zero downtime on firmware upgrades
- Decent Reports
Cons
- 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
Return on Investment
- Cost savings
- Got a All flash similar performance
- Happy Customer
- zero downtime
Alternatives Considered
Dell EMC Unity, Pure Storage FlashArray and NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays
Other Software Used
ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), Redgate SQL Monitor
It's not just Nimble it's agile too!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
- Replicating between sites
- Compressing data on volumes
- Deduplicating data on volumes
- Customer service
Cons
- The feature set is pretty broad and could be overwhelming at first
Return on Investment
- Made disaster recovery simple with replication
- Simplified our VMware datastores
- Has made reporting and alerting easier
Alternatives Considered
Dell EqualLogic PS Series
Other Software Used
VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, Veeam Backup & Replication
Positive Business Result Storage
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 to implement.
Pros
- Reporting and Monitoring
- Good Technical support from vendor
- Easy to manage
- Speed and performance are good what we needed.
Cons
- We did not face any major issue with this storage devices
Return on Investment
- 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
Alternatives Considered
Dell EMC Unity and IBM FlashSystem
Nimble - Great at what it does.
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
Return on Investment
- ROI achieved by not needing a Storage Engineer due to simplicity
- Not able to provide NAS protocols (NFS, SMB)
Alternatives Considered
NetApp E-Series and Dell EMC Unity
Other Software Used
NetApp Active IQ, HPE InfoSight, Dell EMC Avamar