We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"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 are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"Ease of deployment"
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"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."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"I would like for it to improve into a more ergonomic management console and a translation into the French language. It should have some process for a shutdown of a VM properly in case of a problem."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"If it could integrate to a cloud gateway, then we could carry it directly to storage, instead of having middleware in between the storage and the cloud."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"One limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"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."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and IBM Spectrum Virtualize, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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