We performed a comparison between Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution provides big space that is reasonably priced."
"The most valuable feature is its scalability. I can easily scale the block from terabytes to gigabytes."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is its scalability."
"When it comes to valuable features, ease of use would be number one."
"The tool has different types of volumes, like SSD and HDD."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is backup...Amazon EBS is a very good product since it is very easy to enhance or increase and migrate your servers immediately, in a matter of seconds."
"When I have to change the operating system or delete a host, I can store the data in EBS or assign it to another host."
"We can utilize mixed storage block-sized objects and combine various databases within a unified interface."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"Nutanix's analytics provide better insights into all of our files."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage are the unified dashboard and the ease of administration."
"The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand."
"They have well-documented best practices and the interface is good."
"It is a highly scalable solution."
"It is hard to access EBS volumes in different Availability Zones (AZs) because most EBS volumes are created in a single AZ."
"In Amazon EBS, it is difficult to reduce the space chosen by the customer. The cost increases the moment the size of the storage increases, and I will have to pay for two TB of the tool instead of one TB."
"Amazon EBS performs well but it could improve."
"The setup could be easier."
"It would be good if the solution added a button to increase the size and make the EC2 machine recognize the increased capacity of the EBS."
"It would be better to analyze and find a way to merge both the file systems of Linux and Windows."
"The cost of using EBS is high compared to other cloud vendors such as Tencent Cloud or CARI Cloud. Some costs are generated immediately and some are likely to increase."
"Amazon EBS needs to improve its user interface for data transactions."
"The solution is very expensive."
"We have had to deal with some infrastructure and general cluster issues but these issues don't impact storage."
"The only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"Customer service is more difficult to call and they do not responding as much as, for example, DataCore. It's not the same level of satisfaction compared to DataCore. Responses could be faster."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"Nutanix should improve the one-click upgrade. There are a lot of dependencies on third-party licenses and HP hardware we use internally. The one-click upgrade fails sometimes."
"Security is an area for improvement. When there are vulnerabilities, there needs to be a faster approval process. The solution needs to automatically target the vulnerabilities and not waste too much time."
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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is ranked 9th in Cloud Storage with 16 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews. Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) writes "Easy to setup and afforadable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is most compared with Microsoft Azure Block Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Oracle Cloud Object Storage, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO and Dell ECS. See our Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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