We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI 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."This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"It has seamless expandability."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"Compatible with third party hardware, but it's still very limited."
"The GUI for this solution 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."
"The reporting section of the dashboard could be improved to include more detailed reporting about the servers."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"Make it easier to manage."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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