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."It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"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."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"It is a scalable solution."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"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 stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"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."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"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."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"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."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"The cost of the solution is too expensive. There are other options, such as VMware, that are offered for less money. In Latin America, it seems to be overpriced for the market."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"Compatible with third party hardware, but it's still very limited."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
"The product could be improved with more security. The product needs a bit more experience in the market. I think you don't have the possibility to add other hardware. It could be improved with the ability to add and extend."
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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 VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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