We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has a simple, user-friendly GUI, and I also like the remote recovery capabilities. It provides a single platform for managing databases."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy."
"It would be great if it could emulate some of the features that their competitor VMware has, for example port mirroring or Netflow output at hypervisor level."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"This solution would be improved with built-in integration with Rubrik."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 29th in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V.
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