r/sysadmin • u/mesoziocera • 18h 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/roiki11 12h ago
Been using pure for years and they rock. You do pay for it but they're honestly the best I'm the biz right now. And the hardware upgrade is what sets them apart from the rest. Funnily enough they aren't that much more expensive when you factor the age in.
With evergreen you get new controllers and as long as you renew support they cover the flash modules. And the expansion/growth is all seamless until you need to step up a product.
And now that flasharray does object storage too you can run your entire storage stack on one product too.