We performed a comparison between Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"The most valuable features are the interface and support."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"The most valuable feature is the easy interface."
"We have been able to save local disk space by using Data Lens. We upload 18 GB to the cloud and are able to save 20% to 25%."
"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is a simple, user-friendly, and stable solution."
"I appreciate its storage licensing model, as it offers flexibility."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is easy to use. New employees are able to come up to speed fairly quickly with regard to the day-to-day administration processes."
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes."
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
"The integration is not difficult because there is no GUI, but we need to use a PowerShell command. This makes it difficult to monitor and to see the components' statuses."
"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."
"Customer service is more difficult to call and they do not responding as much as, for example, DataCore. It's not the same level of satisfaction compared to DataCore. Responses could be faster."
"The interface is not logical. It should be a little simpler."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"Security is an area for improvement. When there are vulnerabilities, there needs to be a faster approval process. The solution needs to automatically target the vulnerabilities and not waste too much time."
"I would like to see the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That could definitely be a major breakthrough in providing a unified, seamless experience for end-users. It could reduce costs as well as human effort."
"The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better."
"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."
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Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 8 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.2, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "The initial setup is straightforward, but the solution has strict compatibility methods". 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 Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and Red Hat Gluster Storage, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Wasabi. See our Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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