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."For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"It is extremely stable."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"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."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"It has enterprise data services with consolidated storage data protection and disaster recovery. One valuable aspect is its efficiency as a robust platform. There is an ease of managing all processes. The data recovery process is remarkably fast. It’s a stable solution. The product is scalable. It provides high-speed live migration capability."
"Flexibility. We're able to mix performance nodes with storage nodes easily. Unlike other vendors where, if we start a hyperconverged solution with them, we have to stick to a specific model, to a specific series with specific capabilities, with Nutanix it's very easy to mix and match the best solution, especially for a dynamic infrastructure like ours."
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"One of the best features of the VNX is the ability to combine drives of different types into a virtual Storage Pool. By combining small but fast flash drives, SAS drives, and high-capacity but slower NL-SAS drives, the VNX can intelligently move data to the different tiers of storage based on usage."
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"Good performance for VM environments"
"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."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"The latency needs improvement"
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"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."
"VNX can improve by offering flexible upgrade options. It's not possible to add a single HDD to a current array and there are fixed rules to make upgrades."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"Based on our workloads, we see repeatedly in performance reports that the built-in controller (SP) cache of our VNX model is not sufficiently large, resulting in forced cache flushing."
"It would be very helpful to get an automated report that shows you the size of the checkpoints and get warnings when a checkpoint is reaching either maximum capacity per a file system or hitting the ceiling on the SavVol pool consumption."
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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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