We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"The management interface of this solution is great."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"I think some of the tasks that must be done using CLI could be added to the web interface."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"I'd like it to be more API-based."
"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 technology has a lot of room for improvement. For example, when they want to segment applications in conjunction with NSX, which VMware uses, Acropolis is not compatible with the competitors. The integration in the security layer is not compatible with NSX for the application segmentation that uses VMware."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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