We performed a comparison between Maxta Hyperconvergence Software and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"They offer top-tier support."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"The architecture of Nutanix is the best, and the virtualization we get, out of the box, is an advantage. Also, dedupe and compression are done natively, inside the platform, so there are no additional licenses. That adds value to it."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface which can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix. All of these clusters cannot talk to each other. Then it has to be then subverted as a parallel execution. What happens then is that I have to work in two different environments within my data center. Practically, they are two different data centers but physically and logically, they are one. If they cannot talk to each other that creates a lot of issues. That is something which Nutanix has to develop because for Nutanix it is very simple. For example, Oracle is using a function called GoldenGate. They have a feature called GoldenGate which allows them to talk to various different environments which must really help."
"The latency needs improvement"
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 32nd in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Maxta Hyperconvergence Software writes "Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is most compared with , whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex.
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