We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"The architecture of Nutanix is the best, and the virtualization we get, out of the box, is an advantage. Also, dedupe and compression are done natively, inside the platform, so there are no additional licenses. That adds value to it."
"It's quite easy to scale, and you have the option to have distributed nodes everywhere around the world that work as one. You can also have a solution for small branch offices with only two nodes for redundancy, and that's good enough to start."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The documentation could be better."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"One thing to keep in mind is that only experts can use it. It has to be in the proper hands, instead of going to XYZ people just for some cost savings. So lift-and-shift and migrations might be tricky, because it is not like a VMware."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with .
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