We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"When compared to Pure Storage, Dell PowerStore's cost was quite attractive."
"The way you're able to manage all your PowerStores as one solution is very good for us. PowerStore enables you to federate or cluster multiple appliances with automated load balancing. In terms of management, it's helpful that we can do it from a single interface where we're able to manage multiple PowerStores. When you have multiple PowerStores it works intelligently by running the workloads based on the needs of the infrastructure."
"I have found the most valuable part of Dell PowerStore is the price."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"A particularly valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The solution's technical support is excellent. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"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."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"I have not seen anything specific. The only thing I can think of that needs improvement is the price."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"We are looking for the Dell PowerStore to become more mature to maximize our use cases."
"The only area I can highlight for improvement is that the 4:1 data reduction target has not been reached. This may be due to an issue with Dell EMC's initial analysis of data compression. As a result, we have had to add new physical disks to reach our goal of total available disk space."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"The documentation could be improved."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
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Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 46 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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