We performed a comparison between NetApp FAS Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."NetApp FAS Series is simple to set up."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"The only downside is in ease in management; it is not easy to use."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"The adoption of flash by NetApp has also been lagging behind the trendsetters, like TMS, Nimble, and others."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"The product must support more drives."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The patch updates of Nutanix Acropolis could be improved. I'm work on the corporate side, but I get feedback from our IT team that patch updates and other updates are taking a significantly longer time. This definitely needs to be resolved. We are in discussion with Nutanix regarding certain configuration issues we are having, so maybe something can be changed to ease these patch updates."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"One of the very important things that I would like to see in Nutanix, but I'm not sure if it's in the roadmap or not, is to have some kind of caching optimization at remote sites, to build active-active data centers more easily."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
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NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our NetApp FAS Series vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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