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."The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"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."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"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 most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"It is extremely stable."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"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."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The product is easy to manage."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"The management interface of this solution is great."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The product does not support file services."
"It can be made cheaper."
"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."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
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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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