We performed a comparison between Azure Stack and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have found the Kubernetes version is one of the key components which we are using heavily."
"Its customer service is good."
"The solution is cheap and helps consolidate infrastructure to a converged space compatible with medium customers."
"The solution is certainly stable."
"The most valuable features are that it is a Hybrid, and we can easily integrate with the Microsoft Public Cloud."
"Technical support is quick and responsive."
"Microsoft support is fast."
"Azure Stack is a good product because it's flexible and easy to work with."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"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."
"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."
"The hyperconvergence service, as well as the DR solution, are game-changers for Nutanix."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable feature is the flexibility to move the VMs easily, keeping everything together."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"I believe the only room for improvement is that I am based in Nairobi, if it has even a local node for Azure, I believe most customers will prefer that to reduce latencies and everything else when using the Azure Stack."
"Azure Stack is an expensive product that should be made more cost-effective."
"Azure Stack is relatively new and lacks the features compared to public Azure."
"It should be improved in terms of integrations. It could be integrated more with external tools."
"Azure Stack should be open to different technologies for more virtualization environments to accept it."
"There are some minor issues or bugs with it that I know are there."
"Microsoft is changing the Azure Stack interface all the time, so it's sometimes hard to find the functionality or the service you're looking for. A feature was in one place and now it has moved somewhere else."
"Some tools do not run without the internet."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"The patch updates of Nutanix Acropolis could be improved. I'm work on the corporate side, but I get feedback from our IT team that patch updates and other updates are taking a significantly longer time. This definitely needs to be resolved. We are in discussion with Nutanix regarding certain configuration issues we are having, so maybe something can be changed to ease these patch updates."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"In a hybrid cloud setup, we should be able to port our floors from on-premises to the public cloud and from the public cloud to on-premises."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 61 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 194 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Google Anthos and VMware Software Defined Data Center, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our Azure Stack vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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