We performed a comparison between NetApp FAS Series, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"It has a very good implementation of the Active Directory services, so implementation into a Windows network is easy."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"Ability to create multiple VMs."
"Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"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."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"I like its storage capacity, quick access to the data, speed, and overall storage management."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"The WAFL is slow."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"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."
"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."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"The main thing Oracle can improve is the cost. It would be better if Oracle opened up the system to enable integration with other vendors. Whether it's the database, application server, or storage appliance, they should make it easy to integrate them. They need to open up more to ensure that it can work in any environment and IT ecosystem."
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