We performed a comparison between Azure Stack and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product has remained stable so far in our company."
"Azure Stack provides us with computational power. We also get an option to have it with Azure Cloud, which is beneficial. We don't need to buy any other extra servers or any virtual machines with high-end graphics."
"Azure Stack is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment for services such as SSH, creating a web site, and Azure billing services to measure the consumption of resources."
"Azure Active Directory is the most valuable feature."
"It is helpful from a security point of view because we can create our own isolated, private environments that contain virtual networks, and we can put security rules in place."
"Its customer service is good."
"The user interface is nice and very simple to use."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"Management is simple"
"There should be more focus on the user interface, specifically for the management console."
"Azure Stack's pricing could be improved."
"I would like to see the AI side come to one hundred percent in the near future."
"Azure Stack should be open to different technologies for more virtualization environments to accept it."
"It would be better to have more services and functionality when it comes to database software and computing."
"It might be beneficial if Microsoft could introduce a more cost-effective data lake feature within their product."
"In some cases, we've seen that some financial software is not working correctly or compatible with Azure Stack. Many companies build this, but some third-party products may not be compatible with Azure Stack. So these are some areas of improvement."
"The solution is not user friendly. I'd prefer to move over to AWS, which is much easier in this sense."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"As Nutanix Acropolis AOS is on the expensive side, one of its areas for improvement is the price. It would also be better if it can be integrated with other cloud providers, because currently, it's only for private cloud deployment."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"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."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"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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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 61 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 194 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Google Anthos and VMware Software Defined Data Center, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our Azure Stack vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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