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Nimble Storage is setting its sights on would-be EMC clients with competitive data tables showing that its product is better than both VNX hybrid arrays and also XtremIO all-flash arrays. This comes just days after Nutanix opened up its Nix vBlock marketing campaign against EMC-using Vblocks from VCE. It’s hard being top of …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    HDS.

    Might I suggest that you compare with HDS HUS VM with flash module. More iops, low latency, and with the 3.2GB FMD flash modules, higher density.

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  2. Nate Amsden

    And....

    3par 7450 blows em all away...45tb raw per U

    Over 400T raw flash and over a PB usable and 6 nines reliability gauranteed in a single system.

    At under $2/gb usable

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    1. Nate Amsden
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      Re: And....

      Meant 22tb per U

      The 45 number came from my friend jack Daniels

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    apples vs. bananas

    These are two different things ... flash as a cache versus flash as a read/write tier.

    http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/06/13/nimble_vs_emc.jpg

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    1. Michael Duke
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      Re: apples vs. bananas

      VNX can use flash as both Cache and a Data Tier at the same time.

      Not looked at Nimble enough to know what it can do TBH.

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  4. Jim Preis

    Vblock not vBlock

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  5. SecretBatcave

    HAving testing the nibmle

    they have good support, however there were two problems for me:

    1) at the time it was iscisi only

    2) If you are have parallel streaming reads, and try and write, performance collapses like a sack of shite (9/1 read to write ratio, 1gig ethernet, to a 10gig switch.)

    However I can see that its grand for VDI and the like. However for us it wasn't a good fit.

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    1. rugby01
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      Re: HAving testing the nibmle

      Just ran this test on my Nimble array (CS210) and I don't see what your referring too. I'm running the 2.X code base and have no impact to performance running a multiple stream 90/10. Maybe you have a bad switch or this was an issue 4 years ago in their 1.0 code.

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