We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"Management is simple"
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"The management interface of this solution is great."
"The fact that there is only one interface to deploy a complete solution for maximum storage is fantastic."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"The full suite of redundancy gives a nice sense of security for the whole environment."
"Servers came pre-configured for our environment and as soon as they were in the rack, Starwind got them up and running."
"The software is great. It's very easy to understand. I've not delved into any of the command-line stuff, but there's no real need to script it. Since it went in, pretty much the only thing that I have needed to do is increase device image sizes and that process is very straightforward."
"Repair efforts have been reduced to nearly nothing."
"It is the perfect solution for hyper-convergence at a fair price. Our customers have Hyper-V and VMware environments, with Windows servers and Linux."
"It did not hurt that the price for the hardware and three years of support cost less than the disparate hardware the cluster used to run on."
"The added speed of using standard HDD and SSD meant we could increase what services are stored on the servers without having to have additional servers."
"Reliability and overall uptime are key as we're also hosting client environments in addition to our own."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"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."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"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."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"It would be nice to have some kind of GUI interface implemented to give you an overall view of the system's health at a glance."
"I think some performance metrics would be nice to see, especially on the storage side."
"Multi cluster support for their Command Console would be very beneficial. Currently, you can only work with a single cluster at a time. The console is new so I expect much growth in this area in the near future. The other area that could be improved is the tech support locale."
"I'd like a better UI and some limitations on "breaking it.""
"The only issues are when Hyper V itself has limitations and I'd love to see support or enhancement in the area of direct-attached GPU cards."
"Not much can be improved, to be honest."
"Most meetings are done via Zoom, and I'm sure you could switch to a text based conversation if needed as they seem like a very accommodating team. It's not something I would worry about if you are a potential client."
"I would request that the terms and conditions be reviewed and made more acceptable to corporate security so that we could finally turn on the proactive support feature, as it is included with our support agreement."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, StorMagic SvSAN and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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