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.
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The price was right."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"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."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"They should improve just the support."
"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."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"In a hybrid cloud setup, we should be able to port our floors from on-premises to the public cloud and from the public cloud to on-premises."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, 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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