We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Scale Computing HC3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"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."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"It gives us a single dashboard to control multiple sites and multiple zones. It helps to do things on a single platform and data sharing is quite easy. The network and the security are easy to manage."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"The solution is scalable."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"The product could use a better control center."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 19th in HCI with 8 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.8. 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 Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Rackspace OpenStack, whereas Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Scale Computing HC3 report.
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