We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."They offer top-tier support."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"It has good stability for our company."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"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."
"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."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"The latency needs improvement"
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface which can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix. All of these clusters cannot talk to each other. Then it has to be then subverted as a parallel execution. What happens then is that I have to work in two different environments within my data center. Practically, they are two different data centers but physically and logically, they are one. If they cannot talk to each other that creates a lot of issues. That is something which Nutanix has to develop because for Nutanix it is very simple. For example, Oracle is using a function called GoldenGate. They have a feature called GoldenGate which allows them to talk to various different environments which must really help."
"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."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Tintri VMstore T7000. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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