We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VAST Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"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 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."
"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."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 8th in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. 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 VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray, Qumulo and Dell PowerStore.
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