We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"The latency needs improvement"
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"In terms of automation, I know there are ways to do it, but it's not very user-friendly. I've been working for the last three years with Nutanix and I've managed to automate certain things, but it's a somewhat more complex job than it should be. I would like to see more documentation or knowledge base articles."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Tintri VMstore T7000. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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