We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Rackspace OpenStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The ease of deployment is very good."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"Administrators are very comfortable with the functionality and services OpenStack offers."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"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."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"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 disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"I would like to see more Kubernetes and container-related workflows and multiple cloud-partner management. I would also like to see how they will synergize all these AI/ML functionalities that are available on other platforms."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"It should have a single dashboard for cloud management and on-premises systems"
"The line migration is a problem."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 10 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 8.0. 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 Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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