We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pivot3 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."It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has a simple, user-friendly GUI, and I also like the remote recovery capabilities. It provides a single platform for managing databases."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"It's quite easy to scale, and you have the option to have distributed nodes everywhere around the world that work as one. You can also have a solution for small branch offices with only two nodes for redundancy, and that's good enough to start."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"The technology has a lot of room for improvement. For example, when they want to segment applications in conjunction with NSX, which VMware uses, Acropolis is not compatible with the competitors. The integration in the security layer is not compatible with NSX for the application segmentation that uses VMware."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"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."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pivot3 report.
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