We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"One of the most valuable features is the One-Click Upgrade. When I need to update the system, I do it with one click. This product is amazing because everything is easy to manage, from network management to snapshots."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides."
"It already has the capability to integrate with the major cloud providers but, in an upcoming release, if there is a possibility to have it integrate with other cloud providers like IBM, Alibaba, and other moderate-level cloud providers, that would be good."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"I would like to see them utilize the spare storage that they use as a redundant space. I feel that now a lot of resources are wasted just for standby purposes because we are using data protection. Instead of utilizing those resources only when something happens, they can have an alternative so that we can utilize these resources all the time."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 29th in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V.
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