We performed a comparison between MinIO and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to spawn a MinIO Tenant on demand and shut it down right after is most valuable."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage."
"Very good at object retrieval."
"MinIO can work with attributes and folders, and it has the ability to use a stream approach for files. I have moments that should work exclusively. It also has some management features you can use, like exclusive locks that you can perform on one record or a collection."
"For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The real-time alerts generated by this system enable us to swiftly address and mitigate such threats."
"The most valuable features are the interface and support."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is easy to use. New employees are able to come up to speed fairly quickly with regard to the day-to-day administration processes."
"The scalability, ease of use, and technical support are the most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is a simple, user-friendly, and stable solution."
"The solution is simple and robust."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"The customer service executives of all Nutanix products are active and responsive."
"We had minor bugs occasionally."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"The monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"The developer support could be better."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"The MinIO dashboard is minimal as there are only a couple of features inside the dashboard for a basic user. I would like this to be more robust with more click-around features."
"MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO. It's not too significant, but it loses connection. We're trying to understand exactly what is happening when this happens."
"The only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
"We would love to see the analytics and ransomware protection extended beyond just file servers to virtual machines, but they have a different product that covers that."
"We have issues with software updates occasionally."
"Another aspect that needs improvement is continuous protection against security threats such as ransomware and potential data leakage."
"One thing I'd appreciate is having a desktop application similar to what VMware offered."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"Improving quota policies would be advantageous, particularly by offering the option to implement blocking instead of just issuing warnings."
"We have had to deal with some infrastructure and general cluster issues but these issues don't impact storage."
MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and VAST Data, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, Dell ECS, Qumulo and VAST Data. See our MinIO vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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