We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"The scalability is great."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"Nutanix Objects is reliable."
"They have well-documented best practices and the interface is good."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"The Nutanix block files are the most valuable feature."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. With a few clicks, you can stand up your storage. It reduces the overall life cycle of deployment within the ecosystem."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage are the unified dashboard and the ease of administration."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"Make it easier to manage."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"The patch updates of Nutanix Acropolis could be improved. I'm work on the corporate side, but I get feedback from our IT team that patch updates and other updates are taking a significantly longer time. This definitely needs to be resolved. We are in discussion with Nutanix regarding certain configuration issues we are having, so maybe something can be changed to ease these patch updates."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"With all of the Nutanix equipment, the licensing is expensive. We operate in the enterprise space, but we're a midsized company. At times, the price tag is a little bit shocking for a company with only 35 employees."
"We would love to see the analytics and ransomware protection extended beyond just file servers to virtual machines, but they have a different product that covers that."
"The feature request I have is for the consistent improvement of how user account permissions are assigned in Nutanix Unified Storage."
"The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better."
"From a management side, the one thing I would prefer is if it were a bit less expensive for smaller enterprises. It's a bit costly. If they provided flexible modules where you could pick and choose features, and only pay for what you use, that would be an improvement."
"If they can add an integrated DLP feature, it would be great."
"Customer service is more difficult to call and they do not responding as much as, for example, DataCore. It's not the same level of satisfaction compared to DataCore. Responses could be faster."
"The solution should increase its storage capabilities."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. 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 Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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