We recently moved to Nimble, and our expectations were surpassed. The Nimble sales team did a good job helping us to properly size the Array, and suggested that we did not need all flash saving some money.
I would be a bit hesitant to bite on the SmartStack concept; we have found that in practice it does not live up to expectations. I understood it to be a single support point, when in reality we still get bounced around. The support for the Array its self has met our needs, no complaints. Kevin Kays On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > Nutanix seems pretty outrageously priced for what you get. Ditto EMC. > But, for larger organizations they might make sense - they just don't > for us, as a smaller organization with only about 200 staff in our HQ. > > Pure is interesting, and we may ask them to participate in our > process, but we don't have an opinion on them yet. > > Nimble is the favored candidate because of our IT Director's previous > experience with them - I don't have any myself. > > Kurt > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm watching this conversation closely. We're looking to replace our NetApp >> because our renewal maintenance costs basically tripled. We of course had >> the option to upgrade our heads for around the same cost, but were surprised >> to find out that we would have to repurchase all of our software if we did >> so. >> So Nutanix, Pure, and EMC have been banging on our door and one vendor is >> suggesting Nimble. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 12:54 PM >> To: ntsysadm >> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] ALL Flash Storage >> >> We also have a VNX 5400 (and a VNXe 3100), and we're going to dump it for >> Nimble in the middle of the year, once our support runs out. >> >> The cost of renewing support will cover a new Nimble, basically, and we >> expect much improved performance. >> >> Kurt >> >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 6:24 AM, David McSpadden <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What is eveyone’s thoughts on All Flash Storage? >>> >>> I am looking to replace the Storage I have attached to my VNX5400 from >>> EMC with either: >>> >>> >>> >>> EMC Unity >>> >>> >>> >>> PureStorage >>> >>> >>> >>> Nimble >>> >>> >>> >>> I haven’t gotten all the proposals in yet but was wondering what >>> everyone else thought about them? >>> >>> This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana >>> Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for >>> the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. >>> If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason >>> to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify >>> the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any >>> other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying >>> of this email is strictly prohibited. >>> >>> >>> Please consider the environment before printing this email. >> >> > >
