We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"The product is easy to manage."
"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."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"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."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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