We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"The most valuable feature is the easy interface."
"The solution is simple and robust."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."
"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."
"What I found to be the most valuable features were better performance and uptime."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"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."
"The name of the solutions offered by Nutanix does not indicate what the tool does."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"Make it easier to manage."
"In terms of automation, I know there are ways to do it, but it's not very user-friendly. I've been working for the last three years with Nutanix and I've managed to automate certain things, but it's a somewhat more complex job than it should be. I would like to see more documentation or knowledge base articles."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Nutanix needs to improve their cybersecurity options at the storage level."
"Improving quota policies would be advantageous, particularly by offering the option to implement blocking instead of just issuing warnings."
"The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"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."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". 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". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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