We performed a comparison between Azure Stack and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is easy to use, especially for individuals who are not familiar with coding and has security built-in."
"Azure Data Factory is a great solution for orchestration."
"The solution's technical support is great since, in our company, we get answers to most of our questions, and most of our queries get resolved with the help of the documentation itself."
"Azure Stack provides us with computational power. We also get an option to have it with Azure Cloud, which is beneficial. We don't need to buy any other extra servers or any virtual machines with high-end graphics."
"The solution pairs well with other MS services and saves us a lot of money."
"The solution is cheap and helps consolidate infrastructure to a converged space compatible with medium customers."
"Azure Stack is a good product because it's flexible and easy to work with."
"The most valuable features are that it is a Hybrid, and we can easily integrate with the Microsoft Public Cloud."
"The tool is simple, stable, and easy to upgrade. It also requires few resources to manage, which simplifies our work. The solution's ease of upgrading is its valuable feature. AHV, provided by Nutanix, is excellent in performance and ease of use. It's based on an open-source product called KVM, which I also use for other services."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"It has enterprise data services with consolidated storage data protection and disaster recovery. One valuable aspect is its efficiency as a robust platform. There is an ease of managing all processes. The data recovery process is remarkably fast. It’s a stable solution. The product is scalable. It provides high-speed live migration capability."
"In the world of IT operations, there is a lot of noise. Traditionally, systems would generate a great deal of alerts, events, and notifications, often leading to the operator either a) not seeing critical alerts since they are lost in the noise or b) disregarding the alerts/events."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"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."
"It might be beneficial if Microsoft could introduce a more cost-effective data lake feature within their product."
"The price of the OCR could be more competitive with Google."
"Our only issue with Azure Stack so far is that the networking is very closed. You need to have the extended LAN to connect the internal LAN to the Azure Stack. Any connection we have needs site-to-site VPN connectivity instead of an internal connection, so Azure Stack has room for improvement in the networking area."
"If you look at the documentation set, there are rims and rims of it. You try to drive something from the console, and it's quite complex. It's not it's not easy and straightforward. You've gotta sit down and review it, look at the documentation, and work your way through it. It's not intuitive."
"The solution could be less expensive."
"They can provide more integration with other services, such as components, open source, because I use these services."
"Azure Stack could be improved with more integration, governance tools, monitor tools, and lift and shift tools."
"Azure Stack's pricing could be improved."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"The compatibility and integration of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved. For example, we have a WAF application firewall and it does not work on this solution. Not all the OS's run on AOS. You need to have a newer version of an operating system if you want Nutanix to perfectly run all the different options."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 60 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 194 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Google Anthos and VMware Software Defined Data Center, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our Azure Stack vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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