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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"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."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"There are a lot of features in Nutanix that are different from other hyper-converged solutions, such as site-to-site replication. VM-based site-to-site replication is bundled with the software licensing. For the DR, it has the availability groups, which is one of the key features that Nutanix provides."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"The performance and small footprint of this solution are its most valuable features. I am able to obtain and use more than 90 percent of the physical hardware capacity."
"It supports the latest technology of NVMe SSD, which is PCIe-based SSD. It has a very good IOPS performance as compared to vSAN. For the same system, I get 1,000 IOPS with vSAN, and with Sunlight, I am able to get almost 10,000 IOPS. In terms of features, it has almost all the features, such as HA and centralized dashboards. It can be managed centrally, and the visibility of the system is very good. They also have very good technical support and customer or partner training."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"My recommendation would be to add this technology to Azure, Microsoft Azure so that we can bring it to the market, or deploy it on public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Google. It is currently only available on Amazon's public cloud."
"Its reporting and dashboards need to be improved. It currently has very basic reporting options. It should also be made easier to deploy on Unix operating systems. It is easy to deploy on Windows and Linux, but it is currently not easy to deploy on Unix."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 28th in HCI with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. 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 Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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