We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"After migration to Unity 300F, we were able to put more DBs on flash, reducing latency. The results were visible in the front-end systems, and all users noticed the improvement."
"It is scalable. We can add additional tools if we need to expand it."
"You can add volume and it's automatically registered in VMware."
"Quick Snapshots and cloning are key features."
"It does great deduplication. From a storage perspective, we save money being able to dedupe right on the disk"
"The most valuable feature of Dell Unity XT is data duplication. Additionally, the management interface is simple, and is not a hassle using it. You don't need too much to learn or to be familiarized with it."
"It has improved the utilization of our own internal resources and performance across our managed service platform, meeting our customers SLAs."
"There are also DR and data protection functions that we found in the new Unity, now that we are stepping up from VNX and other storage appliances, that we've started implementing."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"It needs to improve its price."
"The file functionality could be better."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"The price of Dell Unity XT could improve."
"Dell Unity XT could improve the compatibility of some of the features. Some of my customers had some problems. Additionally, it would be beneficial for the solution to have advanced AI and ML features."
"Include cloud-based replication for blocks"
"I called about an issue where I couldn't get VVOLs registered. It turns out it is a bug in the code and that there is no information about when it will be fixed. It's just not going to work. I was a little miffed about that."
"If you compare it with VMAX, where we communicate with the box through Solutions Enabler and there are a lot of commands and a lot of flexibility, the command line for Unity needs to enhanced."
"Dell could improve Unity XT by adding support for NVMe."
"I think Dell EMC should be more careful in appointing partners, and they need to have better control over their partners. And if their partner has some problems with them, we should not suffer."
"The product’s pricing should be improved."
"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."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
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Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 189 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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