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 performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"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."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"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."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"The solution has many good features."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"The solution is not very stable."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"One of the very important things that I would like to see in Nutanix, but I'm not sure if it's in the roadmap or not, is to have some kind of caching optimization at remote sites, to build active-active data centers more easily."
"Make it easier to manage."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"The name of the solutions offered by Nutanix does not indicate what the tool does."
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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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