We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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.
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"It is extremely stable."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"The fact that there is only one interface to deploy a complete solution for maximum storage is fantastic."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"Servers came pre-configured for our environment and as soon as they were in the rack, Starwind got them up and running."
"We have found the live migration to be the most valuable feature. It allows us to seamlessly maintain our servers, as well as have peace of mind if something goes wrong."
"However, StarWind HCA won us over in two areas: price and support. We were actually able to install an all-flash StarWind HCA for less than other vendors' spinning rust solutions! We were able to roll five years of warranty and support into the purchase price and still save thousands of dollars upfront."
"The hosts came preconfigured, and it was plug-and-play."
"The high-quality hardware options, directly affecting performance, have significantly improved the user experience and are well worth the cost."
"We no longer need multiple staff members performing small, mundane tasks."
"It is the perfect solution for hyper-convergence at a fair price. Our customers have Hyper-V and VMware environments, with Windows servers and Linux."
"The StarWind array has greatly improved our workflow internally as it is quite easy to use and provides robust features that allow us to provide anything our clients need quickly and efficiently."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"Not much can be improved, to be honest."
"The management console could use a facelift."
"Over the past three years, there were two instances where our cluster had an issue, yet StarWind proactively notified me of those issues and effortlessly guided me through the process of correcting the issue with minimal effort on my part."
"A desired feature or service is the ability to have a hardware subscription plan that ensures routine hardware updates in conjunction with the hyper-converged software."
"I would request that the terms and conditions be reviewed and made more acceptable to corporate security so that we could finally turn on the proactive support feature, as it is included with our support agreement."
"Perhaps the initial configuration and documentation could be a little clearer and simpler to follow."
"At times there has been a language barrier when communicating issues."
"The only real flaw that I have seen so far is this hard drive that was accidentally ejected because when it was received and added back into the RAID. There was an error there. It was not added back into the RAID correctly, so I have an outstanding hard disk. Apparently, a guy just knocked it with his hand as he was in my office, so it was just a small eject. He said that he didn't crash into anything. That is the only thing that has reared its head."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, StorMagic SvSAN and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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