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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"Multi-tiering, positively affects the efficiency of the storage space."
"It is very stable even during multiple power failures."
"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 replication feature provides another functionality to protect your data."
"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."
"It is very stable, even during multiple power failures."
"Integration with VMware"
"FAST (auto-tiering): Doesn't require configuration and is managed by the array itself."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"The latency needs improvement"
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"EMC VNX needs to support bigger SSD and the Next Generation EMC Unity does this."
"Poor connection to FC."
"The scalability is average because the storage has some hardware limitations and, obviously, operating system limitations."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
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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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