We performed a comparison between NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are good. Snapshot copies are pretty much the write-in time data backups. Obviously, critical data is snapshotted a lot more frequently, and even clients and end users find it easier to restore whatever they need if it's file-based, statical, etc."
"The ease of use in terms of how the product works is valuable. We are able to work with it and deploy the storage that we need."
"ONTAP's snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are pretty useful in recovering your data from a time in a snapshot. That's pretty useful for when you have an event where a disaster struck and then you need to recover all your data. It's pretty helpful and pretty fast in those terms."
"So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage."
"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are the best thing since sliced bread. Rollback is super easy. It's just simple, and it works. It's very efficient."
"The FlexClones make all the management easier for us."
"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."
"Another feature which gets a lot of attention in our environment is the File Services Solutions in the cloud, because it's a completely, fully-managed service. We don't have to take care of any updates, upgrades, or configurations."
"The scalability, ease of use, and technical support are the most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage are the unified dashboard and the ease of administration."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"My opinion is that this solution has very good stability."
"The most valuable features are the interface and support."
"The inclusion of it in the Nutanix Objects Storage platform simplifies my process as I am no longer required to acquire a separate platform. Instead, I can simply purchase additional licenses as needed. All management can be performed from a single unified interface, making it a convenient and streamlined experience."
"Nutanix Objects is reliable."
"Nutanix's analytics provide better insights into all of our files."
"The data tiering needs improvement. E.g., moving hard data to faster disks."
"The integration wizard requires a bit of streamlining. There are small things that misconfigure or repeat the deployment that will create errors, specifically in Azure."
"I would want more visibility and data analytics where we can see anomalies within the shares within the GUI."
"I rate the scalability a five out of ten."
"Some of the licensing is a little kludgy. We just created an HA environment in Azure and their licensing for SVMs per node is a little kludgy. They're working on it right now."
"There is room for improvement with the capacity. There's a very hard limit to how many disks you can have and how much space you can have. That is something they should work to fix, because it's limiting. Right now, the limit is about 360 terabytes or 36 disks."
"We would like to have support for high availability in multi-regions."
"The dashboard is a little bit clunky. I like to see it a little bit more on the simplistic side. I would like to be able to create my own widgets and customize what I want to see a little bit more versus what is currently there. That would be helpful so that when I log in, I go straight to my widget or my board without going to multiple places to get to what I need to find or build."
"The implementation is a little bit complex and should be made easier."
"From a management side, the one thing I would prefer is if it were a bit less expensive for smaller enterprises. It's a bit costly. If they provided flexible modules where you could pick and choose features, and only pay for what you use, that would be an improvement."
"We have some problems with Nutanix Unified Storage's support because they asked us to change our hardware."
"The feature request I have is for the consistent improvement of how user account permissions are assigned in Nutanix Unified Storage."
"The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better."
"The solution should increase its storage capabilities."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"Nutanix should improve the one-click upgrade. There are a lot of dependencies on third-party licenses and HP hardware we use internally. The one-click upgrade fails sometimes."
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 5th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 60 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 39 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". 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". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Qumulo. See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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