We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"A company can scale it easily."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"Technical support is okay."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"It has been stable so far."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"User interface could be improved."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"We did have some integration issues."
"We ran into an issue as a managed service provider because Acropolis isn't designed to be used the way we are running it. For example, if we want to deploy a Kubernetes service, the customer networks need to reach our protected cluster network. We have isolated our customers in separate VLANs. However, our customers' networks must access our cluster network to get features like iSCSI or Kubernetes to run. It's challenging."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our HPE StoreVirtual vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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