We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure Storage FlashArray 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."Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"One of the most valuable features of Nutanix is that it's easy to use. I love this solution—it's easy to maintain and update, and I think it's almost perfect."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"The performance is very good."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"The software-defined networking should be improved. It is quite substandard as compared to the VMware variant. The software-defined networking is quite limited, and we usually use other products to do that. We're aware that Nutanix is working on that and will be coming out with better solutions, and we can't wait because to do a fully software-defined architecture, the abstraction layer needs not only software-defined storage, which you have, but also the software-defined networking piece."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"We ran into an issue as a managed service provider because Acropolis isn't designed to be used the way we are running it. For example, if we want to deploy a Kubernetes service, the customer networks need to reach our protected cluster network. We have isolated our customers in separate VLANs. However, our customers' networks must access our cluster network to get features like iSCSI or Kubernetes to run. It's challenging."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Tintri VMstore T7000. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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