We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure 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."The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"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."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"Technical support is okay."
"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 consolidates our servers, and improves our electricity consumption and cooling as well."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"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."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"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."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"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."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"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."
"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."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"The cloud deployment could be improved."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"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."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
"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."
"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."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 22nd 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 Dell PowerFlex, whereas Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure report.
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