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.
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"The solution has many good features."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"The level of statistical performance data that it can confirm in real-time is extremely useful. I can see what my VM’s hosts and guests are doing from a single pane of glass and identify issues before they would otherwise become apparent."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"The solution is not very stable."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"The software-defined networking should be improved. It is quite substandard as compared to the VMware variant. The software-defined networking is quite limited, and we usually use other products to do that. We're aware that Nutanix is working on that and will be coming out with better solutions, and we can't wait because to do a fully software-defined architecture, the abstraction layer needs not only software-defined storage, which you have, but also the software-defined networking piece."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd 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, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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