We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"Management is simple"
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"It has been stable so far."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"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."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"The documentation could be improved."
"We did have some integration issues."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V.
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