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."It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The price was right."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"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."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"Very good in-line compression."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"I can use VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything I need without spend more money on licenses."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"I like NCI's dashboard. If there are any infrastructure issues, we'll get alerts inside the dashboard. NCI provides a single platform for managing all of our databases. We are running SQL and Linux databases."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"The documentation could be better."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."
"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."
"The product is expensive."
"It can be made cheaper."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 13th in HCI with 23 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd 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, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM). See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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