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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"The dashboard of Nutanix Acropolis AOS allows for simple management. The dashboard has all the information online about what's going on at any given time."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"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."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"I would like to see more Kubernetes and container-related workflows and multiple cloud-partner management. I would also like to see how they will synergize all these AI/ML functionalities that are available on other platforms."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with .
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