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 product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"It's quite easy to install."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"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 HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"It has been stable so far."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"Ease of deployment"
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"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 storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"One of the very important things that I would like to see in Nutanix, but I'm not sure if it's in the roadmap or not, is to have some kind of caching optimization at remote sites, to build active-active data centers more easily."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
"This solution would be improved with built-in integration with Rubrik."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
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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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