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"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The price was right."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"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 XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"The self-service side of the product needs to be improved. We should be able to add two-factor authentication and more security layers to it."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"It would be great if it could emulate some of the features that their competitor VMware has, for example port mirroring or Netflow output at hypervisor level."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
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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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