We performed a comparison between Azure NetApp Files and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Migration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The critical features of this solution are SnapMirror for replication, data protection, and SnapLock."
"It has saved a lot of time. Because in the older, conventional hardware system, they need to raise a ticket to go to storage engineering, then storage engineering would increased the size. Now, it's dynamic. You don't have to do anything. This improved the time by more than 50 percent."
"It's elastic, so it scales with our demands. We can start small, then with the addition of customer loads, we can expand on-the-fly without the need to reprovision something."
"Using NetApp Files got us out of a really difficult situation quickly, effectively, and at a reasonable cost."
"I think the easiest part is, when you do a comparison, it is the throughput versus the cost. And it's much easier to set up."
"This solution definitely makes us more efficient in being able to provide storage quickly to our customers in the Azure Cloud."
"I like the SnapMirror feature in Azure NetApp Files. It helps me create backups with snapshots and makes data recovery and compression."
"The availability is good, meaning downtime or network issues rarely occur. The system also offers flexibility, allowing for increases in data volume, IOPS, and other capabilities without requiring downtime, which is a strong point. Based on the money spent, we can get performance improvements and high availability."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Clusters are Prism Central, Micro-segmentation, and cluster scaling automation."
"In terms of dealing with our business-critical workloads, Nutanix is a highly scalable, highly resilient, and very high-performing solution."
"Having a single pane of glass where you can have both your on-prem and anything else that you spin up within AWS is useful."
"The solution can scale well."
"I've been very pleased with their support overall."
"The overall infrastructure is the most valuable part of Nutanix Cloud Clusters."
"The most valuable feature is having the full features of my Nutanix on-premises applications in the cloud."
"The scalability is good."
"I have a hunch that storage could be now the most expensive portion of our monthly bill. So I can imagine that, not this year, but next year we will be talking about looking deeper into ways how we can optimize the cost."
"I would like to see multi-zone redundancy so that I don't have to worry about it. I just back up my data to that one SMB share and I know that it's replicated to a different region."
"Reserved Instances for Azure NetApp Files would improve more use cases, making them more valuable in Azure as the cost would be reduced."
"This solution would be improved with more innovation."
"The main hurdle in promoting this solution is the price. Its price definitely requires an improvement. It is more expensive than other options, so customers go for a cheaper option."
"We would like for the files which are coming in that we can version them. So, if a file is accidentally deleted, there should have a recycle bin option where we can go back, and at least once, clean it up."
"We would like to see more paired regions for the replication."
"We would like to have backup functionality built-in so that we don't run into the issue where the replication process makes a copy of the corrupted data."
"The reporting has room for improvement."
"Perhaps the one thing that could be improved is the documentation around the solution."
"We've had some challenges with the implementation."
"There are still some things that could be improved about the product."
"Some of the interfaces aren't as intuitive as they should be."
"The pricing can be better."
"The biggest weakness with Clusters at this point is that the adoption rate is low because customers don't know enough about it."
"I'd like more flexible options to get in and out of migration modes."
Azure NetApp Files is ranked 2nd in Cloud Migration with 15 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is ranked 13th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews. Azure NetApp Files is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure NetApp Files writes "We can expand our storage on-the-fly without the need to reprovision". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) writes "Helps manage costs, eliminates waste, and has excellent technical support". Azure NetApp Files is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Nasuni and NetApp ONTAP, whereas Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Stack, AWS Outposts, VMware Cloud on AWS and Microsoft Azure. See our Azure NetApp Files vs. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) report.
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