Nimble’s probably telling you that compression is better than dedupe, they even have all kinds of great marketing literature to back it up. To me, Nimble falls in the general purpose array, it doesn’t do any one thing great, but it does a lot of things very well.īelow you’ll find a break down of our workloads and capacity consumers.Ĭompression? yeah, Nimble’s got compression… Depending on your workload, more of one than the other may be more important to you, or maybe you just need something that can do ok with all of those factors, but not awesome in any one area. When I think of what defines storage as being fast, its IOPS, throughput and latency. Good performance like a lot of things is in the eye of the beholder. This is going to be the basic outline of the review.įinally, for your reference, we’re running 5 of their 460’s, which is between their cs300 and cs500 platforms and these are hybrid arrays. When I’m thinking about storage, the following are the high level area’s that I’m concerned about. I’m not going into why I chose Nimble over NetApp, perhaps some other time, for now this post is about Nimble, so let’s dig into it. While I made the recommendation with a high degree of trepidation and even after a month with the storage, wondered if I totally made an expensive mistake, I’m happy to say, it was and is still is a great storage decision. Nimble Storage, with Nimble obviously winning us over. At the time, Tintri and Tegile never showed up in my search results, but ultimately Tintri wouldn’t have worked (and still doesn’t) and Tegile is just not something I’m super impressed with.Īfter a lot of discussions and research, it basically boiled down to NetApp vs. There were other vendors I was interested in but the cost would have been prohibitive, or the solution would have been too complex. Its not a super huge list as there was only so much time and budget that I had to work with. Ultimately Nimble won us over against the various storage lines listed below. When I was looking at storage a few years ago, it was hard to find reviews of vendors, they were very short, non-informative, clearly paid for, or posts by obvious fan boys. To begin with, as you can tell, I’ve been running Nimble Storage for a few years at this point, and I felt like it was time to provide a review of both the good and bad. These views are my own, and not my employers, and they’re opinions not facts. Disclaimer: I’m not getting paid for this review, nor have I been asked to do this by anyone.
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