HPE Nimble Storage vs Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] comparison

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Everpure FlashArray

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Sowjanya MV

Technical Lead at Wipro Limited

Has improved performance for mission-critical workloads and enabled seamless non-disruptive upgrades

The availability is 99.99%, which is the main factor any customer would need because their data should be available whenever they want to access it. This is one main critical thing. It is very easy to upgrade since Pure Storage FlashArray handles it well. Everything is non-disruptive now; previously, there were forklift shifts, but now that is not the case. Pure Storage FlashArray says no to forklift upgrades. Usually hardware requires downtime, but Pure Storage FlashArray has improved their footprint so that they are not asking for downtime; everything is just a non-disruptive activity, which is why customers are more inclined towards Pure Storage FlashArray. Customers want more of the models in their environment due to the performance they are giving, and everything is in one Pure1 Array console where we can view all the models on one page or just an orchestration tool. You don't miss anything; you have replication, notifications about replication, and details about which host groups replication is happening in and if that replication is successful or failed. On a daily basis, our purpose is to create volumes for infrastructure; our daily activities include creating volumes and mapping them to the host, doing any migrations from a VM, clearing the data stores, and carving the volumes to those VMs. One key factor is the data compression with a ratio of 5:1, focusing on space efficiency, inline deduplication, and the compression Pure Storage FlashArray works on; that is a major factor we can suggest to any customer. Analytical capabilities are crucial. Daily, we check the throughput and consumption, and Pure Storage FlashArray provides predictions for one year regarding usage. This prediction helps plan updates well ahead. For support, we just raise a case, and they follow up and get it done. There is also AI readiness, but with the model R2, we don't have much of that AI readiness. For others, we do have AI readiness that predicts capacity based on daily or monthly trends, enabling us to analyze how much space we need or if we need to expand the disk shelf. From an operational point of view, a good feature is that if you accidentally delete a volume, it will be retained in the destroyed state for the next twenty-four hours, which is not the same with any other vendor. I have worked in this storage domain for the past fifteen years, and this option is remarkable, benefiting any L1 or L2 engineer. Additionally, from a compliance perspective, Pure Storage FlashArray has REST APIs enabled. I have not explored automation much, but from a security standpoint, it is strong with encryption data. If you want to automate, you can easily integrate with all clouds and explore Pure Cloud for scheduling workloads, including volume creation. Customers find benefit in Pure Storage FlashArray's single management pane of glass due to the dual controller and active-active setup. If one of the controllers goes down, all workloads automatically shift to the other controller, ensuring their data is safe and accessible at all times. This is a highlighted feature that any customer desires because their data should always be accessible. For SAN workloads, we use Pure Storage FlashArray because for SAN FC fiber channel, we don't use it; we use NetApp for NAS activities. We have clearly split this, so SAN is for mission-critical applications, while network-attached storage handles file systems. This architecture helps us maximize the benefit from Pure Storage FlashArray due to the significant workloads from this giant retail client. From a footprint and energy consumption perspective, you can see energy consumption from the Pure1 storage portal on a daily basis, and it is very compact. The three models we use consume only three units, which is quite low. From a footprint and data center perspective, it doesn't occupy much space. As everything moves to cloud, there are requirements to avoid excess spending on data centers, and Pure Storage FlashArray is efficient in energy consumption and is environmentally friendly.

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it_user1205586

Chief Solutions Architect at Science Applications International Corporation

Good price-performance ratio, provides simplified provisioning and management

We use this solution for provisioning and management The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption. The exterior display needs to be improved. Sorry, I like the blue lights the competition has, but maybe we can see green led lights…

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Thomas Watterott

IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

Replication and dashboard improve system integration efficiency

It's a good product, but the implementation with the new systems is done via the cloud dashboard from HPE. I can't activate the system without a cloud connection, which is a bit laggy if I don't have the right firewall settings, making it take longer to implement the storage. It was better with the old systems, where I could install and activate without cloud connectivity.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Even if it costs a little bit more, you do get more for what you pay."

"We chose Pure Storage primarily because of its combination of performance and ease of use."

"The best features Everpure FlashArray offers are its ease of setup and incredible performance, which is better than most other software or hardware that we have used."

"We have tons of capacity on it."

"I cannot imagine my workflow without Everpure FlashArray because I do not have any other type of storage in use."

"When you put all of the features in a box, leverage them and migrate your application to one of these arrays, it will give you a lot of benefits."

"The best features of Pure Storage FlashArray are its ease of use and user-friendly interface, and the performance allows all types of services to be visualized from a single point of interface, making it more robust and user-friendly."

"The performance is very good."

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"The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption."

"This solution had the best cost and it was easy to work with the Vendor."

"InfoSight, for sure, has been the best feature so far."

"Nimble has really met all of our needs and at a price we could afford."

"The best support ever."

"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."

"The solution runs pretty fast."

"If a ransomware or enterprise-level attack happens, my infrastructure remains totally secure. If any virtual machine gets damaged or collapses, we have built a backup solution, which will take a minute to restore the same version of HPE Nimble Storage in our company."

"From a price/performance perspective, Nimble simply can’t be beat."

"Some of the beneficial features I have found are the Block-level backups, the interface is easy to use, backups work well and the portal is functional."

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Cons

"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."

"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."

"There was some complexity in the initial setup."

"There are a lot of things to improve."

"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."

"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."

"Regarding documentation, it would be helpful if we could have access to the root passwords for administrative tasks."

"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."

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"The exterior display needs to be improved."

"Nimble tends to be lagging behind in that space, and it's not completely their fault, but I think they could do a better job pushing for those integrations with various third-party products."

"Improved snapshot overview in array management GUI."

"The InfoSight continues to improve, but could use some more innovation."

"The VDI is supposed to be smooth, but we still saw a little delay in typing and performing general work even though we didn’t put much load into it."

"It would have been nice if the vendor had informed us of a known bug that occurred during the firmware upgrade because we could have prevented our only major failure."

"The solution is quite expensive. We'd like them to lower the cost of the product."

"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."

"Nimble requires its DNS to work in order to interface with VMware vCenter is a little thorn in my eye, but I am being nitpicky here."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"While more expensive than NetApp, Pure Storage FlashArray offers superior performance that often justifies the higher cost and adds value overall."

"Cost-wise, it's been very effective."

"The price, in general, is around $100,000, however, I know it costs more."

"We consume it as a service, and that's actually something we really like, or at least I really like from the technical perspective. That's because it means there is no hassle when we need to upgrade arrays to add capacity. We just interact directly with technical counterparts, and we say, "Hey, we're filling up," and they say, "All right, here's another data pack." They ship it in, and we install it. So, the as-a-service model has worked very well. Given the outstanding data reduction rates, it has improved our profitability because we're selling allocated volumes as part of the cloud service or recovering those costs from our tenants. It is very efficient, but that has offset the premium price. It started out that way, but over time, as we've added capacity, the price per gig has gone down a lot because we have a lot of it."

"Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."

"The pricing is very attractive and it delivers performance for the money."

"When you are paying more than you were paying for the storage space, you'd like the cost to be less. If they could get into the spinning disk kind of cost, that would be it."

"The cost of Pure Storage is subjective and determined by your environment. Pure Storage tends to be more expensive than NetApp, but it is cheaper than EMC. Performance varies with data workload, making cost considerations complex."

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"This solution has a good price-performance ratio."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing ten out of ten."

"HPE Nimble Storage didn't require a license at the time."

"Once you purchase the solution, you don't have to buy any license for this Nimble product."

"I would classify it as an expensive product."

"My company has opted for HPE GreenLake payment model, meaning the billing is done on a quarterly basis."

"The price has room for improvement."

"It is very pricey. You pay for what you get, and this storage solution is great. It is well worth the cost."

"The solution’s pricing is reasonable for the features that it provides."

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Comparison Review

it_user277539

Vice President, Products and Services with 51-200 employees

Jul 30, 2015

Hybrid storage, all-flash storage, and hyper-converged products offer software capable of running on commodity hardware, providing a better end-user experience at a reduced price.

Originally posted at https://www.freeitdata.com/ Over the last 15 years, the storage industry has primarily been dominated (market share) by six companies, EMC, NetApp, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), HP and Dell. In 2013, these six companies made up approximately 85% of all storage sold in the…

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Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

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11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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10%

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Midsize Enterprise	38
Large Enterprise	160

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Also Known As

Pure Storage FlashArray

HUS VM

Nimble Storage

Overview

The FlashArray family delivers consistent, high-performance data services across block, file, and object workloads. As part of the Everpure Platform, it provides the foundation for a unified data plane, enabling applications to reliably access, protect, and manage data across environments with simplicity and predictability. With built-in capabilities such as inline data reduction, snapshots, replication, and ransomware resilience, FlashArray ensures efficient operations, protected data, and consistent application uptime.

As the foundation of the (unified) data plane, FlashArray enables policy-driven automation, monitoring, and centralized management while integrating across cloud and on-premises environments. Built on an Evergreen architecture, it supports non-disruptive upgrades and continuous performance improvements over time while simplifying operations at scale.

What Key Features Does FlashArray Offer?

Simplicity and Speed: Easy management and rapid performance enhancements.
Data Reduction: Effective deduplication and compression.
Flash Architecture: Seamless upgrades and outstanding resilience.
VMware Integration: Excellent compatibility with virtualization platforms.
Predictive Analytics: Strong insights for proactive management.

What Benefits Should Users Consider?

Reliability: Proactive support with minimal downtime.
Efficiency: Reduced storage footprint and enhanced data management.
Performance: Faster processing speeds and low latency.
User Experience: Simplified management with Evergreen model.

In industries like finance, banking, and healthcare, FlashArray supports high-performance storage needs focusing on virtualization and database environments. Employed for VMware workloads, disaster recovery, and storage provisioning, it ensures application performance in private or hybrid cloud setups while enhancing management of virtualized environments.

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage)

The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM delivers proven enterprise-class functionality — advanced virtualization of externally attached storage, logical partitioning, thin provisioning and universal replication — in flexible, cost effective service oriented configurations.

Hitachi Vantara

HPE Nimble Storage provides efficient and high-performance storage solutions with seamless OS upgrades, excellent performance, and proactive support. It offers scalable storage management with advanced capabilities, enhancing usability through strong integration with VMware.

Designed for simplicity and performance, HPE Nimble Storage facilitates smooth firmware updates without downtime, featuring advanced data compression, deduplication, and replication. InfoSight analytics offer predictive capacity management, improving efficiency and optimizing storage. While excelling in VMware environments, its pricing and feature set require careful consideration. Users often seek enhanced snapshot management, integration improvements, and broader protocol support alongside active-active controller capabilities.

What are the key features of HPE Nimble Storage?

Ease of setup and management: Quick installation with streamlined administrative tasks.
Seamless OS upgrades: Implements updates without disrupting operations.
Data compression and deduplication: Optimizes storage efficiency by minimizing data footprint.
InfoSight analytics: Provides predictive analytics for efficient resource management.
Integration with VMware: Enhances functionality for virtual environments.

What benefits should users consider?

High performance: Delivers reliable and fast data access for critical applications.
Proactive support: Expert assistance simplifies administration tasks.
Cost-effectiveness: Provides cost-efficient storage solutions with advanced capabilities.
Scalability: Adapts to growing data requirements, supporting long-term growth.

HPE Nimble Storage is widely adopted in sectors like legal, healthcare, and finance, supporting virtual environments and business-critical applications like ERP and document management systems. Emphasizing high availability and fast access, it addresses storage needs across production and test data, particularly in VMware settings.

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