We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We face very few hardware failures."
"The scalability is good."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"The technology is very good, it performs well."
"The performance is good."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"The solution is easy to use, share, and manage."
"The most valuable features are the interface and support."
"The real-time alerts generated by this system enable us to swiftly address and mitigate such threats."
"We have been able to save local disk space by using Data Lens. We upload 18 GB to the cloud and are able to save 20% to 25%."
"The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand."
"The integration with Prism Central makes it a lot easier to manage, so we just have a single pane of glass location that we can go to. We do not have a separate admin console or anything that we have to use."
"The scalability, ease of use, and technical support are the most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage."
"The management interface is great and you have handy access to several details about your file shares."
"The initial setup is not so easy."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"The setup is very complex."
"If Dell ECS would be available as standalone software, so you can use any hardware with it, would make the solution better. It would also be good if Dell ECS had more integrations with other products."
"They do not have complete documentation, which is very weak and could be improved."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"We have had to deal with some infrastructure and general cluster issues but these issues don't impact storage."
"The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better."
"Nutanix needs to improve their cybersecurity options at the storage level."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"I would like to see the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That could definitely be a major breakthrough in providing a unified, seamless experience for end-users. It could reduce costs as well as human effort."
"Security is an area for improvement. When there are vulnerabilities, there needs to be a faster approval process. The solution needs to automatically target the vulnerabilities and not waste too much time."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, MinIO, NetApp StorageGRID and Qumulo, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Qumulo and VAST Data. See our Dell ECS vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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