We performed a comparison between HPE Primera 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."It simplifies building out the storage."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The performance is very good."
"It is stable and reliable."
"The product is stable."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"HPE Primera has good integration. All the users are using HP servers and some systems, such as Synergy, which integrate well into the solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It is a stable and scalable solution with quick and efficient storage capability."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"The level of statistical performance data that it can confirm in real-time is extremely useful. I can see what my VM’s hosts and guests are doing from a single pane of glass and identify issues before they would otherwise become apparent."
"It has enterprise data services with consolidated storage data protection and disaster recovery. One valuable aspect is its efficiency as a robust platform. There is an ease of managing all processes. The data recovery process is remarkably fast. It’s a stable solution. The product is scalable. It provides high-speed live migration capability."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"The reporting console can be improved with out of the box reports."
"We used to receive hardware errors a lot of times. The ambient temperatures rise rate was approximately 35 to 55 degrees, but when it was approximately 27 or 28, we used to get errors a lot."
"We have not had a good experience with support from HPE Primera. They can improve."
"The file server embedded in Pure, the GUI, and the tracking and reporting features are better with Pure Storage."
"Like most storage, we want to see flash become more and more stable. Like any flash that uses MLC or TLC techniques, over time, the more writes you have, the less usable the storage becomes. They try to plan for this and have a lot of extra space in the arrays, but over time, their performance does degrade. This is true for any flash storage."
"We face challenges with false alarms, particularly daily alerts related to replication link breaks. I'm not happy with the customer service and support."
"This solution would be expensive for small business and it could be priced more competitively for that market."
"Price is always important in Turkey, so HPE could lower the price to keep it competitive. It's not as competitive as other solutions in this market."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
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HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. HPE Primera is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our HPE Primera vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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