We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"This is a great product."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"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."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
"I would like to see more Kubernetes and container-related workflows and multiple cloud-partner management. I would also like to see how they will synergize all these AI/ML functionalities that are available on other platforms."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 [EOL] is most compared with .
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