We performed a comparison between HPE StorageWorks MSA, NetApp FAS Series, and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network)."The most valuable feature of HPE StorageWorks MSA is its flexibility."
"Monitoring is a very big thing. Other great features include block storage; volume creation and the data reliability scalability, which makes the solution really good."
"The solution is very easy to use, it is not really complex for any user, such as non-technical individuals."
"I like StorageWorks' snapshots for our backup system. We had a pool of SSD and traditional drives. StorageWorks has a feature that transfers the hot data to high-performing drives."
"The most valuable features were the dual controllers and being able to expand it."
"The most valuable features are the storage levels and snapshot features."
"The solution is pretty transparent and works well."
"The simple configuration feature is great. It is very simple, allowing you to set up MSA very easily."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"Ability to use mirroring and SnapVault have made backup no longer necessary."
"Fast Snapshots"
"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."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"One-Click Upgrade and Foundation is the most valuable feature. One-Click Upgrade makes upgrades and LCM a breeze. Prior to Nutanix One-Click Upgrade, upgrades and LCM were overly cumbersome and time-consuming. Foundation provides an easy, yet very structured, approach to cluster modification (adding or removing nodes)."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"Flexibility. We're able to mix performance nodes with storage nodes easily. Unlike other vendors where, if we start a hyperconverged solution with them, we have to stick to a specific model, to a specific series with specific capabilities, with Nutanix it's very easy to mix and match the best solution, especially for a dynamic infrastructure like ours."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"The solution's license should be integrated and not separate."
"It would be ideal if there was a better management interface."
"The support contract is expensive, although they are very responsive."
"Synchronized replication is very important for MSA; however, HPE StorageWorks MSA doesn't provide synchronized replication."
"Some clients have suggested room for improvement in expanding storage capacity beyond the base traces."
"The solution could improve by adding configuration tools."
"The solution requires hardware."
"This product is getting a little bit older, so new features like deduplication are not included."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"The WAFL is slow."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"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."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"The self-service side of the product needs to be improved. We should be able to add two-factor authentication and more security layers to it."
"I think some of the tasks that must be done using CLI could be added to the web interface."
"I would like to see them utilize the spare storage that they use as a redundant space. I feel that now a lot of resources are wasted just for standby purposes because we are using data protection. Instead of utilizing those resources only when something happens, they can have an alternative so that we can utilize these resources all the time."
"The ability to create clusters faster would be nice to see in a future release."
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