We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI 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."Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"Very good in-line compression."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"Technical support is okay."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
"Sometimes the technical support would get back to us in two hours, but other times it would take them two or even three days to respond."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"The product is expensive."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
"I would like to see more Kubernetes and container-related workflows and multiple cloud-partner management. I would also like to see how they will synergize all these AI/ML functionalities that are available on other platforms."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 14 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 29 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "A scalable product that provides zero downtime and enables organizations to manage their infrastructure from a single console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM). See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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