We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"In the world of IT operations, there is a lot of noise. Traditionally, systems would generate a great deal of alerts, events, and notifications, often leading to the operator either a) not seeing critical alerts since they are lost in the noise or b) disregarding the alerts/events."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"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 process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] 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 VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] is most compared with .
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