We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"The product’s quality of service guarantees the performance of each workload."
"Ability to cluster two storages together with HA availability."
"We are satisfied with the stability."
"Scalable and stable storage array."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is its ability to store data well."
"Last year, I did a DM Series installation with my colleague, and this installation was effortless because we had Lenovo support on the phone, so it was easy to get help if we had any problems."
"The FlexClone feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is its capability to tier to the cloud, such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. Additionally, the integration is good and they are user-friendly."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"It has seamless expandability."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"The licensing model needs to be revisited. It needs to be simplified."
"I would rate the support of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series a four out of five."
"The solution needs a simpler licensing theme around the DM series. The problem is if you only need one of the features, you still have to buy the whole thing. The licensing needs to be more granular or flexible so you have the option to only license FlexCone or Inline Compression features."
"It takes a very long time to enter the management console, as well as to restart the system, and these are things that should be improved."
"This is an expensive solution."
"Many people do not realize that Lenovo has a storage solution, so better marketing from the vendor is needed."
"The Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series was very hard to configure. Installation of the product was very hard. These are its areas for improvement."
"The solution should change the licensing model and allow customers to choose features based on their requirements."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"Areas for improvement would be the memory setting and the CPU setting reserve features, which are not available on Acropolis. I also feel that the DR solution, the reporting, and the component that is combined with the Nutanix OSP need to be improved."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
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Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is ranked 21st in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is rated 7.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series writes "Simple deployment, stores data well, but missing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is most compared with NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series. See our Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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