We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"Storage is always available."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"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 love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"One of the very important things that I would like to see in Nutanix, but I'm not sure if it's in the roadmap or not, is to have some kind of caching optimization at remote sites, to build active-active data centers more easily."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
"I would like to see official compatibility with Red Hat in the future."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's LTS version needs to be more reliable."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and IBM Spectrum Virtualize, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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