We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"It is extremely stable."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"A lot of features are there, but for us, on the server administration side, creating a clone of the VM is valuable because many times, we have to deploy security patches. For deploying these patches, it helps to have a clone so that if something goes wrong, we can discard that VM and put back the clone VM. That is a very cool feature."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"It worked flawlessly."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"They require more media visibility."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"Our client had some old Citrix Xen servers for which there is no direct migration. Nutanix has a move utility for Microsoft Hyper-V clusters or VMware clusters. You can easily migrate them using the move utility, but the Xen clusters cannot be migrated in a simple way. That is the only thing that is lacking, but nowadays, no one uses the Citrix Xen server for their clusters. Everything else is already there. Nutanix keeps on upgrading its hardware's or hypervisor's capability to be able to support new technologies."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Tintri VMstore T7000. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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