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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"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."
"We like that the size of the box is 1U or 2U only, and all the servers are fit into that box. The ease of operation is there. All the servers and the SAN storage are inside the box."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"The implementation of both block and file system storage in a single GUI provides is better situated than most other storages."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"Integration with VMware"
"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."
"I really value deduplication and compression to save space."
"High availability including non-disruptive updates: We cannot afford downtime windows."
"The most valuable feature is the tight VMware integration, due to the migration from bare metal to virtualized environments and then on to the cloud."
"They require more media visibility."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"The price could be lower."
"We would like to see a cloud version of Acropolis AOS. Currently, we're trying to implement an AWS environment for some solutions, but we would like to use another technology also to enhance our organization, so we are looking for another technology for this, especially a cloud solution."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"The latency needs improvement"
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"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."
"Poor connection to FC."
"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."
"The administrative console (Navisphere/Unisphere) needs some improvement, especially on their Java-based GUI. The updated version of Java is not compatible."
"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."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSDs. Next generation EMC Unity will do this."
"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 scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd 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, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas VNX [EOL] is most compared with .
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