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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."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."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"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."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"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."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"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."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"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 documentation can be better for the free tier."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"One of the very important things that I would like to see in Nutanix, but I'm not sure if it's in the roadmap or not, is to have some kind of caching optimization at remote sites, to build active-active data centers more easily."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"The technology has a lot of room for improvement. For example, when they want to segment applications in conjunction with NSX, which VMware uses, Acropolis is not compatible with the competitors. The integration in the security layer is not compatible with NSX for the application segmentation that uses VMware."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd 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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