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 saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"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."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"The fact that there is only one interface to deploy a complete solution for maximum storage is fantastic."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"The tool is simple, stable, and easy to upgrade. It also requires few resources to manage, which simplifies our work. The solution's ease of upgrading is its valuable feature. AHV, provided by Nutanix, is excellent in performance and ease of use. It's based on an open-source product called KVM, which I also use for other services."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"It consolidates our servers, and improves our electricity consumption and cooling as well."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"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."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"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 would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"The price could be lower."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
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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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