We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"Areas for improvement would be the memory setting and the CPU setting reserve features, which are not available on Acropolis. I also feel that the DR solution, the reporting, and the component that is combined with the Nutanix OSP need to be improved."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] 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 VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] is most compared with .
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