We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"It simplifies storage."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"We like the performance."
"I use InfoSight quite a bit. It works well. It allows you to get some insight into what's happening in your environment immediately, instead of having to send things off and having them analyzed and sent back to you."
"InfoSight is helpful because it is proactive support."
"The most valuable feature is data mirroring."
"It is easy to use. Not too complicated."
"InfoSight has allowed us to centralize our management, understanding how it correlates to the array. It has identified a network issue in the network configuration of ESXi hosts. It enables us to get servers back up faster by 25 percent."
"The most valuable feature is the management of Nimble Storage, InfoSight. This is like a cloud. That's really a very nice feature. I think that's the only reason to buy Nimble Storage."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"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."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"It is a bit expensive."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"It needs to improve its price."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"We face challenges with hardware delivery."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"The amount of firmware updates released seem excessive."
"The solution that I have is a hybrid, not a full flash. The hybrid version could be improved."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"I'd like to see more granular quality of service rules. Currently, I think currently there's not much room for maximum IOPS, but there's not an option for minimum IOPS for a given volume."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"The technology has a lot of room for improvement. For example, when they want to segment applications in conjunction with NSX, which VMware uses, Acropolis is not compatible with the competitors. The integration in the security layer is not compatible with NSX for the application segmentation that uses VMware."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"The price could be lower."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 118 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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