HPE Nimble: Analytics and Scalability
January 04, 2025

HPE Nimble: Analytics and Scalability

Tim Lillis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with HPE Nimble Storage

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.
  • 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.
Almost perfect, some hoops to jump through after major upgrade, but overall simple and effective. Our storage administrator really likes the integration with vmware as it makes his life easier. Also it was no trouble integrating it with our active directory credentials. The only issue we had was getting the plugin in VMWare going initially.
EMC and Dells products were long in the tooth and kind of outdated. They lacked the reporting and analytics that HPE Nimble provides. Pure is really our gold standard for storage , but even Pure lacks the analytics that HPE is able to achieve. I would love to transfer those analytics to our PURE arrays.

Do you think HPE Nimble Storage delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with HPE Nimble Storage's feature set?

Yes

Did HPE Nimble Storage live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of HPE Nimble Storage go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy HPE Nimble Storage again?

Yes

Nimble came to the market as the best hybrid solution of spinning disks and SSD. I believe these hybrid arrays might still be available and would make sense if a customer wants budget friendly solutions. However the strongest use case in my opinion is for shops who dont have the time or manpower to vet every VMware upgrade for interoperability with their SAN environment. HP Nimble does the lifting for you.

HPE Nimble Storage Feature Ratings

Enterprise Flash Array Storage
8.7
Flash Array Performance
8
Flash Array Integration
10
Data Compression
10
Non-Intrusive Upgrades
10
Simplicity
9
Power Savings
5

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