We performed a comparison between Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I appreciate Amazon's extensive range of services, which makes it a favorable choice."
"Its elasticity and flexible pricing are the most valuable. For Amazon EFS, you are charged based on the storage. It is also very fast and stable with a very simple and intuitive interface."
"We can run code and deploy it whenever we want."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy, as per the configurations."
"The solution is scalable."
"EFS is flexible."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage are the unified dashboard and the ease of administration."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"They have well-documented best practices and the interface is good."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is easy to use. New employees are able to come up to speed fairly quickly with regard to the day-to-day administration processes."
"What I found most valuable in Nutanix Files Storage is its high availability and ability to scale out with many VMs."
"It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances."
"It should be simplified. There are people who don't have cloud experience. It should be storage that we are able to just connect to."
"The lack of transparency in the costs attached to the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The user activity needs to be more connected."
"The interface seems strange and complicated."
"When we faced some issues, the support team took a lot of time to resolve them."
"Around 80 percent of the features of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) are available on Linux and not in Windows, making it a major drawback of the product."
"The product's stability has some shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
"The interface could be improved."
"Lowering the price would improve this product."
"The current hardware is not as dense as it could be. In our deployment, we have 2 PB per site, and we have to have 24 nodes. That's a lot of cabling and network ports that we use up. More dense nodes would be better."
"The solution should increase its storage capabilities."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"The implementation is a little bit complex and should be made easier."
"One thing I'd appreciate is having a desktop application similar to what VMware offered."
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Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is ranked 9th in File and Object Storage with 10 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) writes "With an easy setup phase in place, it offers great integration capabilities". 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 EFS (Elastic File System) is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, Google Cloud Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Azure NetApp Files, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Qumulo. See our Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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