We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"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."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"The latency needs improvement"
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
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Dell XC Appliance is ranked 38th in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell XC Appliance is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell XC Appliance is most compared with , whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our Dell XC Appliance vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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