We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged 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 ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"The architecture of Nutanix is the best, and the virtualization we get, out of the box, is an advantage. Also, dedupe and compression are done natively, inside the platform, so there are no additional licenses. That adds value to it."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"The scalability is great."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"The solution is not very stable."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"Make it easier to manage."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"The reporting section of the dashboard could be improved to include more detailed reporting about the servers."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
"I would like to see official compatibility with Red Hat in the future."
"The software-defined networking should be improved. It is quite substandard as compared to the VMware variant. The software-defined networking is quite limited, and we usually use other products to do that. We're aware that Nutanix is working on that and will be coming out with better solutions, and we can't wait because to do a fully software-defined architecture, the abstraction layer needs not only software-defined storage, which you have, but also the software-defined networking piece."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 33 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 192 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and FlexPod XCS, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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