We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"I can use VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything I need without spend more money on licenses."
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"The dashboard of Nutanix Acropolis AOS allows for simple management. The dashboard has all the information online about what's going on at any given time."
"The level of statistical performance data that it can confirm in real-time is extremely useful. I can see what my VM’s hosts and guests are doing from a single pane of glass and identify issues before they would otherwise become apparent."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"It is extremely stable."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"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."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"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."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"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."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"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."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN 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 Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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