We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes can support what we call a heterogeneous environment. So you can have VMware workloads, Hyper-V workloads, bare metal Red Hat workloads, Kubernetes workloads all on the same cluster. You're not pigeonholed into either all bare metal or all virtualized. So it supports basically any platform."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"What I like the most are the high-availability and scalability."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"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."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there. A full-blown cloud foundation has a lot more to it."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"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."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
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Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 21st in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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