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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"There are a lot of features in Nutanix that are different from other hyper-converged solutions, such as site-to-site replication. VM-based site-to-site replication is bundled with the software licensing. For the DR, it has the availability groups, which is one of the key features that Nutanix provides."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"The replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"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."
"Integration with VMware"
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-tiering, which helps in the speed of data access."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"We did have some integration issues."
"If the VNX had embedded encryption, that would be great."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The CLI could be better documented, like with VMAX."
"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."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 29 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 "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". On the other hand, 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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