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.
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"The solution has many good features."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"It consolidates our servers, and improves our electricity consumption and cooling as well."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"One point for improvement is to increase the performance capabilities of the Windows-based executable as compared to its Linux Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) equivalent."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"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."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"The documentation could be improved."
"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."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 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, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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