We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Vblock [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"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."
"I like NCI's dashboard. If there are any infrastructure issues, we'll get alerts inside the dashboard. NCI provides a single platform for managing all of our databases. We are running SQL and Linux databases."
"The scalability is great."
"It has seamless expandability."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"Systems run solidly."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"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."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"The reporting section of the dashboard could be improved to include more detailed reporting about the servers."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"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."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Vblock [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 Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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