We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged 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 for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"A lot of features are there, but for us, on the server administration side, creating a clone of the VM is valuable because many times, we have to deploy security patches. For deploying these patches, it helps to have a clone so that if something goes wrong, we can discard that VM and put back the clone VM. That is a very cool feature."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"Its most valuable feature is simplicity. It is so easy to use. Upgrades are easy. It is easy in terms of disaster recovery, failover, database provisioning, and reporting. Everything about it is just simple."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"The solution is not very stable."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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