We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual, IBM Spectrum Scale, and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."A very flexible solution."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"A company can scale it easily."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"GPFS monitoring is the best feature."
"The profile share is a valuable feature."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"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."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"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 feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it has centralized management."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"It is a costly solution."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"Maybe it needs integration with HA."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"As Nutanix Acropolis AOS is on the expensive side, one of its areas for improvement is the price. It would also be better if it can be integrated with other cloud providers, because currently, it's only for private cloud deployment."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"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."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"Reduce its power consumption."
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