We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"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 configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"One of the improvements I would like to have is related to naming. It is getting confusing because they are using three-letter acronyms, which are more or less misleading. What I do not like is that they changed names and reused names. They had a meaning in the past and they are still using the names for something similar."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"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."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere and HPE SimpliVity.
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