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HPE SimpliVity vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HPE SimpliVity

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AHPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. HPE acquired SimpliVity for its Omnicube line of products in January 2017.N/A

    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ANutanix in San Jose, California offers their software-defined Enterprise Cloud as a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. The Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution combines the Nutanix Acropolis virtualization solution, Nutanix AHV hypervisor (though Acropolis works with other hypervisors), Prism cluster manager, Nutanix Calm and Nutanix Flow server management, and is available on the Nutanix NX series of server hardware appliances, as well as third-party OEM appliances.N/A
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    HPE SimpliVityNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
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    HPE SimpliVityNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HPE SimpliVityNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Considered Both Products
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Chose HPE SimpliVity
    We have decided to sign with Nutanix. We feel they are improving technology and are just a better software now.
    Incentivized
    Chose HPE SimpliVity
    In our testing, HPE SimpliVity had slightly better data redundancy than Nutanix.
    Incentivized
    Chose HPE SimpliVity

    There were not many others > 4 years ago that stacked up.

    Nutanix at the time just was too pricey compared to what HPE SimpliVity offered.

    Incentivized
    Chose HPE SimpliVity

    SimpliVity OmniCube supported NVidia Grid cards when we did our POC where Nutanix didn't.

    SimpliVity also had a better business case for us as it gave us the DR planning that we wanted as well as a way to be innovating and reduce our space usage in the server room.

    SimpliVity …

    Incentivized
    Nutanix
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    The HPe solution we looked at was not as good, this was only introduced as one of the aquired companies used it and we. after we took over and looked under the hood, we felt that it was not a very ideal solution for use and that is what prompted use to abandon that infra and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Simply put Nutanix AOS is in another class. It is so much better, faster, easier to use, train, etc. I would recommend Nutanix every time.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Nutanix AOS is a hands-down much better thought-out and more robust solution than vSAN.
    Better priced than SimpliVity.
    Simpler HCI solution than Pure.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    We were looking at Simplivity before they were bought out by HP. We liked Nutanix because of the included hypervisor and file services - we were paying way too much for VMware licensing to continue using it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Easy to use, performace and new features
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    AOS is a lot simpler, more performant than the other solutions
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Nutanix AOS doesn't have any legacy hardware like Simplivity.
    Cisco HyperFlex uses FI switches.
    I want a solution that is true HCI, and Nutanix AOS gives me this option.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Nutanix AOS is ​​very easy to scale up
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    HPE SimpliVityNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (75 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.7
    (54 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    5.2
    (2 ratings)