We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"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."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"It gives us a single dashboard to control multiple sites and multiple zones. It helps to do things on a single platform and data sharing is quite easy. The network and the security are easy to manage."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"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."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"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."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Our client had some old Citrix Xen servers for which there is no direct migration. Nutanix has a move utility for Microsoft Hyper-V clusters or VMware clusters. You can easily migrate them using the move utility, but the Xen clusters cannot be migrated in a simple way. That is the only thing that is lacking, but nowadays, no one uses the Citrix Xen server for their clusters. Everything else is already there. Nutanix keeps on upgrading its hardware's or hypervisor's capability to be able to support new technologies."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"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 StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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