We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"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 speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"As Nutanix Acropolis AOS is on the expensive side, one of its areas for improvement is the price. It would also be better if it can be integrated with other cloud providers, because currently, it's only for private cloud deployment."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN 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 Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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