We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are many counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"We like that the size of the box is 1U or 2U only, and all the servers are fit into that box. The ease of operation is there. All the servers and the SAN storage are inside the box."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"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."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"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 GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and IBM Spectrum Virtualize, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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