We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"We like that the size of the box is 1U or 2U only, and all the servers are fit into that box. The ease of operation is there. All the servers and the SAN storage are inside the box."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has a simple, user-friendly GUI, and I also like the remote recovery capabilities. It provides a single platform for managing databases."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"The ease of deployment is very good."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"We ran into an issue as a managed service provider because Acropolis isn't designed to be used the way we are running it. For example, if we want to deploy a Kubernetes service, the customer networks need to reach our protected cluster network. We have isolated our customers in separate VLANs. However, our customers' networks must access our cluster network to get features like iSCSI or Kubernetes to run. It's challenging."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"The software-defined networking should be improved. It is quite substandard as compared to the VMware variant. The software-defined networking is quite limited, and we usually use other products to do that. We're aware that Nutanix is working on that and will be coming out with better solutions, and we can't wait because to do a fully software-defined architecture, the abstraction layer needs not only software-defined storage, which you have, but also the software-defined networking piece."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"We would like to see a cloud version of Acropolis AOS. Currently, we're trying to implement an AWS environment for some solutions, but we would like to use another technology also to enhance our organization, so we are looking for another technology for this, especially a cloud solution."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VIOLIN QV2020 [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 VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] is most compared with .
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