We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual, IBM Spectrum Scale, and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"A very flexible solution."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."
"GPFS monitoring is the best feature."
"It makes our file system sharing a lot easier, even across different continents. We have had file systems shared across different continents with no performance degradation."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"We can have multiple systems within the same file system."
"Single-click upgrades are the most valuable feature. In the sector in which we work, it is tough to have downtime and arrange firmware upgrades."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"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."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"User interface could be improved."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization."
"The main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"The price could be lower."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"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."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"The reporting section of the dashboard could be improved to include more detailed reporting about the servers."
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