HPE Nimble Storage Reviews & Insights

Score6.5 out of 10

65 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for HPE Nimble Storage are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

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.

Reviews

28 Reviews

HPE Nimble: Analytics and Scalability

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 4, 2025

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Tim Lillis

Director of Infrastructure in Information Technology at Kent Intermediate School District (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

25 years of experience

Positive Business Result Storage

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 1, 2022

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

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.

Jagmender Kharb

Technical Team Lead in Information Technology at Wipro Limited (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 5, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 requirement growing in our environment.

Pros

Reliable storage for VDI.
Scalability
Less complexity.

Cons

No dedicated sales team or support engineer.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ease of deployment, management of Nimble web portal.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Nimble - Great at what it does.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 3, 2022

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Performance overviews are very simple in the infosight dashboards. Replication an protection policies are easy to setup.

Brian Aguirre

Sr Mgr Cloud Infrastructure in Information Technology at Allstream (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

All Flash in Hybrid Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 2, 2022

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

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.

Jeeva Kumar

Information System Manager in Information Technology at ZeOmega (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 2, 2022

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

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.

Scott Anderson

IT Administrator in Corporate at KPFF (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Jack Be Nimble

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 12, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 between the Nimble units in two locations. By doing this, we had a snapshot solution for backups and cross replication for disaster recovery.

Pros

Ease of implementation
High performance

Cons

Single pane management for multiple units.
CIFS/NFS

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.

Sam Fowler

IT Manager in Information Technology at Foundation for California Community Colleges (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Great product

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 24, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 virtual machines, and with the second one, it provided replication for all production high-level virtual machines.

Pros

Fast
Set and forget

Cons

Infosite took a bit to actually pull value out of it. Great overall.
Better documentation on what happens when data stores are deleted.

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.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

The best storage solution available if you have the budget

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 17, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 we have been using it, we have never had any company downtime due to the Nimble storage. Due to the failover ability between the controllers, it also means that it can be kept up to date without needing to schedule in downtime each time, allowing us to be more secure.

Pros

Failover between controllers which enables high availability.
High speed access of data, all of our server applications can run easily using this storage.

Cons

Having more customisation for reports on storage would be useful in capacity planning- allowing for more granular views on storage usage over a set period of time (i.e. broken down by datastore, or even VM).

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.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 25, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 we first started considering a clustered approach virtual computer we needed to find something to host the VM's on such that they could be accessed by any clustered host and Nimble was the perfect solution for us.

Pros

HP Nimble is basically an all in one SAN with SSD cache or in some cases fully SSD based however the thing it does the best is its front end GUI and user management capability making it easy for anyone to ramp up on managing it quickly.
The Nimble SAN is also very easily managed when it comes to hardware management. Outside of some major internal parts such as the mainboard, almost everything in the system is duplicated so single failures never bring the system down. Power supplies and drives are easily swapped out.
Nimble has incredibly capable and easily accessible support that is available 24/7.
The price point on Nimble, though higher than piecing together a home made SAN out of spare Windows Servers, is perfect even for some SMB's.

Cons

The add on and upgrade parts for the system are a bit overpriced and if you buy your own third party they may try to not honor their warranty.
Setting up redundant Nimble boxes is not as well documented as it could be.
They are seeming to stop supporting some older devices a bit faster than they used too ALA Microsoft Windows and the way they are not handling version 10 though not as extreme.

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.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 25, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

HP Nimble is basically an all in one SAN with SSD cache or in some cases fully SSD based however the thing it does the best is its front end GUI and user management capability making it easy for anyone to ramp up on managing it quickly.
The Nimble SAN is also very easily managed when it comes to hardware management. Outside of some major internal parts such as the mainboard, almost everything in the system is duplicated so single failures never bring the system down. Power supplies and drives are easily swapped out.
Nimble has incredibly capable and easily accessible support that is available 24/7.
The price point on Nimble, though higher than piecing together a home made SAN out of spare Windows Servers, is perfect even for some SMB's.

Cons

The add on and upgrade parts for the system are a bit overpriced and if you buy your own third party they may try to not honor their warranty.
Setting up redundant Nimble boxes is not as well documented as it could be.
They are seeming to stop supporting some older devices a bit faster than they used too ALA Microsoft Windows and the way they are not handling version 10 though not as extreme.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience