We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"It has been stable so far."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"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."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE Alletra dHCI and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and VMware vSphere.
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