We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure File Storage and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product can integrate with all platforms. My team also does data visualization, and Power BI can directly connect with those nodes. We can very conveniently connect with multiple tools for our database. The benefit here is that by utilizing the same storage application, my application is linked with their application through the same server. This setup provides real analytics and data for a holistic purpose, which is advantageous."
"Its most valuable features are speed and security."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure File Storage is that all the features are available in one place."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure File Storage is the cloud file storage capability."
"Integration with the entire Azure platform."
"It is a good service for file storage."
"What I like about Microsoft Azure File Storage is its convenience for customers, cost-effectiveness, and high availability."
"The immutable storage features are valuable."
"Nutanix has excellent product documentation available on their portals, written in simple, easy-to-understand language."
"The real-time alerts generated by this system enable us to swiftly address and mitigate such threats."
"The Nutanix block files are the most valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to use, share, and manage."
"The scalability, ease of use, and technical support are the most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"The life cycle managers of the PCMs are very impressive, and I like them. They make our lives easy when managing patches and security updates when they come in. A life cycle manager helps to consolidate different vendors."
"The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand."
"Microsoft Azure File Storage is not that scalable. Once you reach the boundaries, you need to migrate to another solution."
"It's not very intuitive."
"It's a bit complex to set up. Other than that, there is nothing to improve."
"Azure File Storage's stability is okay, but sometimes we have trouble with the link to the Azure VPN disconnecting."
"The integration of the site storage with SQL was not completely seamless."
"Considering the enterprise licensing required for the solution, the cost of the solution is an area where the product needs improvement."
"I have had issues migrating my data to another subscription."
"A lot of things could be better, especially when it comes to accessing File Storage for monitoring. Azure Copy is fine, but there could be additional integration and security features for those who want more privacy and control over access to Azure."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"The GUI is easy to use, but it's complex to do tasks from the command line. That is one way they could simplify things for the engineers. People tend to use a graphical interface more than the command line interface. If anything goes wrong, we need to do troubleshooting from the CLI. It would be nice if there were more ways to fix issues within the GUI."
"Unified Storage failed to fulfill our object storage requirements."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"The current hardware is not as dense as it could be. In our deployment, we have 2 PB per site, and we have to have 24 nodes. That's a lot of cabling and network ports that we use up. More dense nodes would be better."
"Nutanix should improve the one-click upgrade. There are a lot of dependencies on third-party licenses and HP hardware we use internally. The one-click upgrade fails sometimes."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"We have had to deal with some infrastructure and general cluster issues but these issues don't impact storage."
Microsoft Azure File Storage is ranked 3rd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 44 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 39 reviews. Microsoft Azure File Storage is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure File Storage writes "Various storage options available, high availability, and quick deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Microsoft Azure File Storage is most compared with Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Azure NetApp Files, Wasabi, Amazon S3 Glacier and Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct. See our Microsoft Azure File Storage vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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