We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What I like best about Dell ECS is its stability. I also like that you can use it for large-scale data purposes. The solution works fine for me, and I haven't encountered any issues with it."
"The tool is easy to use."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"I have been satisfied with the stability."
"This product is very competitive."
"Dell ECS is a cost-effective solution that provides ease of use and availability."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"The integration with Prism Central makes it a lot easier to manage, so we just have a single pane of glass location that we can go to. We do not have a separate admin console or anything that we have to use."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"We can utilize mixed storage block-sized objects and combine various databases within a unified interface."
"It is a highly scalable solution."
"The solution is easy to use, share, and manage."
"The real-time alerts generated by this system enable us to swiftly address and mitigate such threats."
"The most valuable feature is that it is highly available, solving the pain-point of delaying updates to Windows-based file servers during production hours. And then the second one would be ransomware protection and analytics. It gives you great visibility and protection on your file shares that are otherwise the most common sources of vulnerabilities."
"Dell EMC ECS should support segregation of duty, particularly for role-based access controls. Having a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism would also make this solution better."
"The solution could be more cost-effective and secure."
"The troubleshooting feature of this solution needs to be improved, to allow organizations to fix issues without having to contact the support team."
"It is a good solution, except for the cost."
"They do not have complete documentation, which is very weak and could be improved."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"With all of the Nutanix equipment, the licensing is expensive. We operate in the enterprise space, but we're a midsized company. At times, the price tag is a little bit shocking for a company with only 35 employees."
"The feature request I have is for the consistent improvement of how user account permissions are assigned in Nutanix Unified Storage."
"We would love to see the analytics and ransomware protection extended beyond just file servers to virtual machines, but they have a different product that covers that."
"From a management side, the one thing I would prefer is if it were a bit less expensive for smaller enterprises. It's a bit costly. If they provided flexible modules where you could pick and choose features, and only pay for what you use, that would be an improvement."
"The interface could be improved."
"The solution should increase its storage capabilities."
"The GUI is easy to use, but it's complex to do tasks from the command line. That is one way they could simplify things for the engineers. People tend to use a graphical interface more than the command line interface. If anything goes wrong, we need to do troubleshooting from the CLI. It would be nice if there were more ways to fix issues within the GUI."
"Nutanix needs to improve their cybersecurity options at the storage level."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO and Qumulo, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Qumulo and VAST Data. See our Dell ECS vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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