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."For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"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 most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"Technical support is okay."
"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."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"The fact that there is only one interface to deploy a complete solution for maximum storage is fantastic."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"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 solution offers impressive performance."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"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."
"The solution is not very stable."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"I would like to see them utilize the spare storage that they use as a redundant space. I feel that now a lot of resources are wasted just for standby purposes because we are using data protection. Instead of utilizing those resources only when something happens, they can have an alternative so that we can utilize these resources all the time."
"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."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
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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 VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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