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."Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"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 been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"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."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"It has enterprise data services with consolidated storage data protection and disaster recovery. One valuable aspect is its efficiency as a robust platform. There is an ease of managing all processes. The data recovery process is remarkably fast. It’s a stable solution. The product is scalable. It provides high-speed live migration capability."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"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."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be improved, but I'm actually very satisfied with this product. There may be some possibilities to move the virtual server dismounting points or to move the server from one group to another, but I can't think of any special improvements or update features."
"The compatibility and integration of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved. For example, we have a WAF application firewall and it does not work on this solution. Not all the OS's run on AOS. You need to have a newer version of an operating system if you want Nutanix to perfectly run all the different options."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
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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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