We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VAST Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"Ease of deployment"
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
"We did have some integration issues."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"We would like to see a cloud version of Acropolis AOS. Currently, we're trying to implement an AWS environment for some solutions, but we would like to use another technology also to enhance our organization, so we are looking for another technology for this, especially a cloud solution."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 8th in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. 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 VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray, Qumulo and Dell PowerStore.
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