We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"A lot of features are there, but for us, on the server administration side, creating a clone of the VM is valuable because many times, we have to deploy security patches. For deploying these patches, it helps to have a clone so that if something goes wrong, we can discard that VM and put back the clone VM. That is a very cool feature."
"The interface is very good. Before we used this solution, we had separate storage and switches, but with the hyper convert, it's all in one."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"The fact that there is only one interface to deploy a complete solution for maximum storage is fantastic."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"UI Options are simple and easy to find."
"Servers came pre-configured for our environment and as soon as they were in the rack, Starwind got them up and running."
"The software is great. It's very easy to understand. I've not delved into any of the command-line stuff, but there's no real need to script it. Since it went in, pretty much the only thing that I have needed to do is increase device image sizes and that process is very straightforward."
"The option to deploy a hyper-converged system without an expensive storage switch was a benefit."
"With StarWind's Proactive monitoring we can go about our day helping our customers and not have to worry about our cluster's health."
"How quickly the StarWind solution replicates also gives us the confidence to know that in the event of catastrophic failure of any piece of hardware, we won't be far behind before things went wrong."
"The added speed of using standard HDD and SSD meant we could increase what services are stored on the servers without having to have additional servers."
"StarWind's proactive support is my favorite feature."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"In a hybrid cloud setup, we should be able to port our floors from on-premises to the public cloud and from the public cloud to on-premises."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's cloud platform management software could be improved so that I can manage my load between the cloud and on-premises."
"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 the IT different categories, I would like for the governing sections to be able to use it in the IT department. If they can have something like a one view management portal or software similar to VMware that would be an added value."
"I wish I understood what goes into the StarWind software a little bit better. To me, it's kind of magic the way some of it works. As an IT professional, you don't really want things to be magic. I do wish there was a little more "Here's how it works." There could be more documentation given to administrators..."
"What would have to be done urgently is the adaptation of the hardware to the configuration."
"An emphasis on security can be improved."
"The monitoring and reporting console can be improved in the sense that it can have more information on it."
"CSVs require the storage to be configured through iSCSI, even though the storage is local."
"It would be nice if the software told you a new version was available and prompted you to do the upgrade to keep everything up to date."
"The only issues are when Hyper V itself has limitations and I'd love to see support or enhancement in the area of direct-attached GPU cards."
"We were slightly disappointed with the hardware footprint. We were led to believe, and all the pre-sales tech information requirements pointed to the fact, that it was coming on Dell hardware. Then it came on bulk servers."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, StorMagic SvSAN and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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