#Nimble storage 10k upgrade#
#Nimble storage 10k full#
#Nimble storage 10k license#

We POC'd both Nimble and Pure, and Nimble mostly came out ahead because of their integration with Veeam. Who knows, could be Pure at that point, but if someone from Pure is telling you this nonsense, they aren't going to rank high on our list.Ĭredentials: Storage Design/Admin for 8 years. I think someone was feeding you a line of nonsense.Īll that being said, 2-3 years when we renew, no company has an edge up on another for us, we'll buy whatever we feel is the best solution for our needs. You buy the array, you get the performance of that array, and you get what you get.

#Nimble storage 10k license#

He said no, the arrays are just priced based on the included hardware and there's no additional license for any features etc.

I told him about this thread and had to ask about hard limiting IOPS based on license, just asking if anything changed since HP took over. Just so happened that our local Nimble sales guy was in yesterday.bribing us with cookies for the holidays, even though we won't be doing any sort of new purchase with Nimble or whoever at least for another 2-3 years. There's a cold storage product that can also sit on top of PURE called Cohesity, which integrates with PURE's interface for a single pane of glass management of backups, SAN, and data analytics (searching for static authenticators, user's recording SSNs, Credit Card numbers, etc).Īdditionally the constant hardware upgrades and refreshes every 3 years are wonderful. We've also been able to contact Cody via email and on the phone whenever we needed or wanted to reach out to him, which was always a great experience. Didn't like Nimble's model of hard limiting IOPS and other performance areas simply by the license type you bought for the same hardware.

We demo'd Nimble and Pure side by side and ultimately went with PURE. Dumping our entire workload onto the SAN gave us about a 5:1 compression ratio even with a bunch of databases and marketing media in the workload. Nothing but phenomenal things to say about PURE. I am sure this is not Pure specific just nothing is perfect. I have seen upgrades that they claim will not cause any downtime, causes downtime of some sort. This starts eating into our early production hours and although it was not an issue, it does bother me not being provided details on this.

#Nimble storage 10k upgrade#

One more recent issue we had was a firmware upgrade that started at 12am but we were unaware that it was a staged firmware upgrade which meant it did not complete until 6am as they had to upgrade controller A, then B then repeat this for a newer firmware until they were at the target version.

#Nimble storage 10k full#

But, this means they do not provide you a full explanation of what exactly is going to happen. More important as someone else pointed out, they handle a lot of this and take ownership of it. I push back because it just does not seem wise. Their support will push for updates during the day. The management of the storage array is very simple, and the self-installation was an added benefit.So this is a pretty important thing to keep in mind which has caused me to lose a little bit of faith in Pure (I will love the arrays compared to most other products out there). For smaller companies, Primera might be a better option. It is also not very scalable, with a limit of 4 nodes.Īmong HPE storage services, Nimble is a better option for large enterprises or companies undergoing a full haul. You cannot tune hot/cold blocks to reduce costs. Primera does leave some room for improvement, though. Finally, because it is self-installable, you can do your own upgrades. Even if you handle high IO clients while dealing with background tasks, it doesn’t have issues. Primera offers us a stable storage environment and good performance, allowing us to save on storage through decompression and deduplication. First of all, it is more affordable than Nimble.

We also found that it doesn’t have enough documentation for support if you want to add more Nimble boxes for redundancy.įor us, HPE Primera was a better choice. Also, if you need to upgrade parts for the system, the cost can get high. For us, though, it was a bit too expensive to justify the cost.Īlthough it provides easy hardware management, single-pane management can confuse a user when trying to manage multiple units. It is good for organizations that are doing a complete re-haul or refresh project. It is easy to implement and provides high performance. We used Nimble storage, and we could migrate almost all our physical hardware. The solution offers SSD-based cache devices and all SSD devices so you can have consistent fast storage or a high-level box that can serve up fast. It is easy to use and doesn’t require much training for admins. HPE Nimble is a versatile synced WAN San solution.