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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"The tool is simple, stable, and easy to upgrade. It also requires few resources to manage, which simplifies our work. The solution's ease of upgrading is its valuable feature. AHV, provided by Nutanix, is excellent in performance and ease of use. It's based on an open-source product called KVM, which I also use for other services."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"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."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Nutanix should improve AHV to support migration VMs between clusters and storage containers. Migration between containers is possible, but it requires shutting down the VM. The procedure is long and there is no migration between clusters at all."
"One of the improvements I would like to have is related to naming. It is getting confusing because they are using three-letter acronyms, which are more or less misleading. What I do not like is that they changed names and reused names. They had a meaning in the past and they are still using the names for something similar."
"The self-service side of the product needs to be improved. We should be able to add two-factor authentication and more security layers to it."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. 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 Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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