We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"It has been stable so far."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"This is a great product."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"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."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"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."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"I would like to see official compatibility with Red Hat in the future."
"In terms of the IT different categories, I would like for the governing sections to be able to use it in the IT department. If they can have something like a one view management portal or software similar to VMware that would be an added value."
"It is a CentOS-based operating system, but CentOS releases security patches almost every week or every other week. However, Nutanix releases their upgrade at three or four month intervals. According to my organization's SLA, if a critical patch is released during that time, then I need to implement the patches within 30 days. If it is a standard patch, then I need to patch it within 60 days. Since that is my SLA, I cannot meet my SLA for security because Nutanix will not release the upgrade within these 30 days. Between the critical patch release and the Nutanix release, my customers say they are vulnerable and I am accepting the risk while the SLA is breached."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
"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 that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex.
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