We performed a comparison between NetApp FAS Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is very stable and reliable"
"Fast Snapshots"
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"This solution provides us with easy management and great vendor support."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"It offers data compression and people management."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"The ease of deployment is very good."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"Flexibility. We're able to mix performance nodes with storage nodes easily. Unlike other vendors where, if we start a hyperconverged solution with them, we have to stick to a specific model, to a specific series with specific capabilities, with Nutanix it's very easy to mix and match the best solution, especially for a dynamic infrastructure like ours."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"In a hybrid cloud setup, we should be able to port our floors from on-premises to the public cloud and from the public cloud to on-premises."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"I'd like it to be more API-based."
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NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our NetApp FAS Series vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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