HCI Comparison

HPE SimpliVity

Nutanix AOS

VMware vSAN

Cisco HyperFlex

Huawei FusionCube

Latest Version

v4.0

v5.17

v7.0

v4.0

v6.0

Price*

*(1$ is the cheapest; 5$ is the most expensive)

Deployment

Service Components

Server

Storage

Network

Data Protection

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Hardware Choice

HPE

Nutanix / Dell / Lenovo / HPE

Any x86 hardware

Cisco Only

Huawei Only

Model

All-in-One Appliance

All-in-One Appliance / Tailor-Made Design

All-in-One Appliance

Minimal Setup

1 node (no HA)

2 nodes

3 nodes

Scalability (Scale Out)

16 nodes

64 nodes (vSphere) /
unlimited nodes (AHV)

64 nodes

32 nodes

256 nodes

Protection

Failure Protection

2 Copies + Hardware RAID (5, 6 or 60)

2 or 3 Copies + Erasure Coding (N+1/N+2)

1 or 2 or 3 or 4 Copies + Erasure Coding (RAID5-6)

2 or 3 Copies

3 Copies + Erasure Coding (N+2)

Remote Replication / Backup

Remote Sites

Public Cloud

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Hardware + Software Support

Single Vendor

Multi Vendor (except Nutanix Hardware)

Multi Vendor

Single Vendor

Last Updated: 13 May, 2021

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