We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI 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."One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"It is extremely stable."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The latency is very low."
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"The technical support services are good."
"The solution works well."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"One of the most valuable features of Nutanix is that it's easy to use. I love this solution—it's easy to maintain and update, and I think it's almost perfect."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."
"The product does not support file services."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
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HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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