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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"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."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"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 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."
"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."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"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 we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd 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, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and VMware vSphere.
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