We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VNX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"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 most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"Good performance for VM environments"
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"From my point of view, the configuration that I can sell is restricted to the EMC best practices. It is hard to make a mistake in a solution. It means the configuration has good performance and scalability options."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
"I would like to see official compatibility with Red Hat in the future."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"I think some of the tasks that must be done using CLI could be added to the web interface."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"The reporting section of the dashboard could be improved to include more detailed reporting about the servers."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"There is no easy way to defrag a RAID group. It would be nice to be able to reduce the size of a storage pool if the storage is not needed anymore."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"Intel Xeon processors with under 2 GHz processing speeds could be replaced with more recent ones."
"Poor connection to FC."
"The management software used for the VNX is Unicenter. While it is an improvement over Navicenter, used in older EMC SANs, it still feels outdated in comparison to other SAN management software."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"There is an easy replication process between distinct data centers via VPLEX and/or RPA. But I hope in the future that EMC/Dell could replicate this with other types of storage."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while VNX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VNX [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 VNX [EOL] writes "The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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