We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The technical support services are good."
"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"The hyperconvergence service, as well as the DR solution, are game-changers for Nutanix."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"This is a great product."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"The documentation could be better."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot."
"It can be made cheaper."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"I feel like the flow chart and the automated processes have some room for improvement. They're nearly there, and the rest is fine. They've improved a lot over the past few years."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th in HCI with 24 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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