We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"We like the speed. It's very low latency. In virtualization, you can mask lots of problems, and even in code you can mask lots of problems, with low latency. It's just pure speed and low latency."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"They have really thought through their solution. They've covered everything."
"The fact that you can manage the requirements is one the most valuable features of HPE Nimble Storage. The other is the rapid deployment time."
"We have seen our average latency go from four milliseconds to point four. Therefore, we are getting 10 times better performance down to the end user on everything. We have seen an increase in our IOPS by ten times."
"The solution runs pretty fast."
"The deployment is fast."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"I have found the convergence rate and deduplication the most valuable features."
"The deduplication and compression capabilities are powerful."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"The scalability is great."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"The tool is simple, stable, and easy to upgrade. It also requires few resources to manage, which simplifies our work. The solution's ease of upgrading is its valuable feature. AHV, provided by Nutanix, is excellent in performance and ease of use. It's based on an open-source product called KVM, which I also use for other services."
"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 most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"HPE does not have suffficient storage."
"It was a bit expensive."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"In the future, I would like to see a lower-end model that has Peer Persistence functionality."
"HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides."
"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."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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