We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has a simple, user-friendly GUI, and I also like the remote recovery capabilities. It provides a single platform for managing databases."
"The product is easy to manage."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"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."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"The most useful feature is the solution's automation in terms of how we are able to spin up a certain workload in real-time when we are doing R&D."
"The consolidation of the management in one control point is the most valuable. The whole infrastructure management is consolidated in just one console point. The documentation is also pretty good."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"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."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"The cloud deployment could be improved."
"The main issue is the initial investment. It is an expensive product, and it should be cheaper. It should also be easier to use and manage. The professional service for this solution is quite complex and expensive."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is very difficult to operate. You have to have a deep understanding of the technical details of the infrastructure to implement it. When you compare it with VMware, it is totally different because the graphical user interface is not that easy to understand. It is not intuitive. To use it, you have to read a lot of documentation and even understand what is going on behind the solution. It is not for someone who has a little bit of knowledge. Currently, it is too complex. I need something that is easy to implement. It should have a basic configuration as well as a complex configuration."
"The licensing policy needs to be improved. They have a licensing policy based on the number of CPU sockets. Nowadays what has happened is that the license they are trying to move is based on the number of CPU cores. With the advancement in technology there are now more cores in a single CPU. It's been very challenging in terms of managing the license around everything. Today we have a processor with 24 and 32 cores on the same physical CPU."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 23rd in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure writes "Comes in a small, compact model that does not have any separate management but it is not so stable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure.
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