We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The tool’s support is feasible."
"The replay and IOPS work well."
"The capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"Nimble's phone-home capability is decent. The compression, dedupe, and caching are also solid. Generally, I like the simplicity. It's almost a set-and-forget solution."
"The quality of the service and management tools let us make contractual guarantees for storage performance for customers. That's something we couldn't do before."
"Nimble Storage is a great storage solution which will give you a lot insight on the growth of your storage."
"InfoSight has identified controller failures or performance issues."
"Our virtual admins are able to take control of Nimble and know how to allocate the storage, whenever it is required, thus reducing time."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"The amount of firmware updates released seem excessive."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"It would be ideal if all these enterprise-class high-performance products would come at a cheaper price."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"I would like to see the network portion of the product improve, especially with some of the things which are coming out from Aruba and HPE. Both are innovating more of an automated networking. I would like to see our Nimble meld into that and do some automated networking."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"They keep talking about doing one-to-many replication. This is what we'd like to see, just to help with data replication."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
"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."
"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."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"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 Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 192 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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