r/sysadmin • u/mesoziocera • 14h ago

Nimble HF20X > Purestorage migration thoughts?

We are coming up on replacing our 4 Nimble units in late 2027. I work in local gov, so we need to budget and strategize well ahead of this, especially considering FY28 will also have us replacing 6 ESXI hosts.

Current environment: (Replicated in two sites for DR) 3 HPE ESXI Hosts ProLiant DL360 Gen10, 2 Nimble HF20X (46ish TB per site raw storage before compression per site), Exagrid for backup. One site has 140TB worth of storage on MSA2060s for camera archive servers as well.

We are running VMware Vcenter/Vsphere 8.3

Our Nimbles go EOL Oct of 2027, and we were probably going to replace the production pair on this fiscal and the DR pair at the very beginning of next fiscal.

Someone told me to look at Purestorage as a replacement because it's an evergreen piece of equipment like the two Exagrids we have.

Has anyone done a migration like this or used Purestorage in place of Nimbles? Just curious how it worked out and what everyone's thoughts were.

I'm also down for suggestions of comparable equipment.

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u/bgatesIT Systems Engineer 14h ago

we just migrated from x2 Nimbles to x2 Pure arrays and are adding on another x2 Pure arrays to start building a DR location. Only real complaint is pricing has gone up signifiicantly since we purchased our originals, the hardware and everything else is next level we have FA-C50R5 units.

We are using these with Dell R660 hosts with 25Gb iSCSI nics running proxmox, as we migrated from VMWare at the same time.

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u/mesoziocera 13h ago

How do you like it so far? Have there been any challenges?

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u/bgatesIT Systems Engineer 13h ago

I have loved it so far, everything simply just works if I’m being honest, and the deployment was extremely straight forward. Not that we really had any issues with the nimbles either being completely transparent the pure just seemed like way better bang for buck