We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."The most valuable feature is the one call number for support and the fact that all the documentation comes with it. They have all of the preprepared plans for the deployment model and we can just choose which one we want for VMware, etc. The hardware is all listed. We buy that and away we go. It's called validated design."
"If the network or site is down, you just need to go to a single vendor. You don't have to open up multiple cases with each vendor to get things done. That is one of the financial benefits of this solution."
"Our footprint is lower than it used to be."
"All-flash storage and low latency I/O enhance performance."
"It provides ease of automation."
"It ships in a rack, so it is very easy to deploy."
"We have seen a 20 percent improvement in application performance."
"It reduced the total cost of ownership."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"Unified management would be really nice, having one a single pane of glass to manage everything do with the solution."
"For the next release, because I know that we are using Pure Storage, what I want to see is the GUI interfaces on this UCS monitor."
"Perhaps having a unified interface for managing the entire company could lead to improved efficiency and performance."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Installation with FlexPod is a bit complex, but it can be upgraded easily. I think Flexpod is phasing out, but it is still the right solution."
"FlexPod will do very well on the average app, but there's room for improvement in performance and the data center side."
"We use technical support from time to time. Most of the time if we really need assistance we end up having to get above the tier one support. We're able to do a lot of the tier one troubleshooting on our own."
"FlexPod XCS' pricing could be cheaper. You need to find the right person for support."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, Oracle Exadata, Dell VxBlock System and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V.
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