We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VAST Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"There are a lot of features in Nutanix that are different from other hyper-converged solutions, such as site-to-site replication. VM-based site-to-site replication is bundled with the software licensing. For the DR, it has the availability groups, which is one of the key features that Nutanix provides."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"One-Click Upgrade and Foundation is the most valuable feature. One-Click Upgrade makes upgrades and LCM a breeze. Prior to Nutanix One-Click Upgrade, upgrades and LCM were overly cumbersome and time-consuming. Foundation provides an easy, yet very structured, approach to cluster modification (adding or removing nodes)."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"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."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The documentation could be better."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"One of the improvements I would like to have is related to naming. It is getting confusing because they are using three-letter acronyms, which are more or less misleading. What I do not like is that they changed names and reused names. They had a meaning in the past and they are still using the names for something similar."
"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."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"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."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 8th in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. 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 VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray, Qumulo and Dell PowerStore.
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