We performed a comparison between HPE Primera 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."Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of deployment."
"The product has better replication features than the previous products."
"The most important thing that we had found when we purchased this product around six months back was its 100% availability and uptime."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the artificial intelligence for the storage inside of the software and firmware because customers do not like functionalities which require manual interruption."
"The interface is simplified."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to provide the IOPS ratio which is required by a lot of our customers."
"The greatest advantage is the support when we encounter incidents, as HPE's support is highly responsive."
"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 the One-Click Upgrade. When I need to update the system, I do it with one click. This product is amazing because everything is easy to manage, from network management to snapshots."
"Management is simple"
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"The interface is very good. Before we used this solution, we had separate storage and switches, but with the hyper convert, it's all in one."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"It was not proactive communication."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"Only HPE can manage the product."
"The file server embedded in Pure, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage."
"The reporting console can be improved with out of the box reports."
"I would like to see improved training offered with HPE Primera."
"There are certain features that require engineering-level access, which should be accessible to storage admins as well."
"The solution could improve by having seamless migration from other storage systems. The process should be made easier."
"The product's stale snapshots feature needs improvement."
"Increasing the IOPS and throughput values would make the product even better. Improving the scalability of HPE Primera is also recommended."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
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HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series. See our HPE Primera vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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