We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Tintri VMstore T7000 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."The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"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."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"Technical support is okay."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"One-Click Upgrade and Foundation is the most valuable feature. One-Click Upgrade makes upgrades and LCM a breeze. Prior to Nutanix One-Click Upgrade, upgrades and LCM were overly cumbersome and time-consuming. Foundation provides an easy, yet very structured, approach to cluster modification (adding or removing nodes)."
"It has been stable so far."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"We love the real-time replication, ease of use when connecting our servers to the storage, and the level of redundancy inside the box... It's also simple software and integrates well with VMware so we get a lot of information about all of the VMs, how they're performing individually, and about network latency. That's very helpful when you're troubleshooting a slowdown."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"Support from our vendor and Tintri are brilliant. They have always answered all of our questions promptly."
"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."
"The Deduplication feature in VDI environments. If Tintri says we can host 3000 VMs in our storage, I know we can host 3000 VMs there. Believe the results."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"Lacks sufficient integration with other vendors and public clouds."
"The product could be improved with more security. The product needs a bit more experience in the market. I think you don't have the possibility to add other hardware. It could be improved with the ability to add and extend."
"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."
"I would like to see Acropolis add the ability to migrate VMs between storage containers. I don't know if they've added this in the latest versions, but I haven't seen it yet. It's mainly about AHV. When we use VMware, we can move between storage containers. In VMware, it's just like regular storage, and we can move it."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"The Tintri OS and GlobalCenter software do a great job of showing you troubled VMs, however it still could be a bit more helpful in diagnosing the issues."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
"The solution is already good but the brand name is not so popular here."
"The biggest area for improvement, and there has been some roadmap work in this area already, is cloud integration... Tintri has been investing in this area and I'm sure will continue to, but cloud integration has been the biggest area that we've been crossing our fingers and hoping for quick development around."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"Their current replication is really just enough to "check the box" that they do replication. We'll probably implement Actifio, Zerto or EMC RecoverPoint for VMs for more critical data replication."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Tintri VMstore T7000 is ranked 14th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore T7000 is rated 9.4. 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 Tintri VMstore T7000 writes "We were able to push a button—it really is that simple—and flip primary and secondary storage locations". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Tintri VMstore T7000 is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Tintri VMstore T7000 report.
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