We performed a comparison between Azure NetApp Files and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Migration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has saved a lot of time. Because in the older, conventional hardware system, they need to raise a ticket to go to storage engineering, then storage engineering would increased the size. Now, it's dynamic. You don't have to do anything. This improved the time by more than 50 percent."
"Since we have NetApp's internally, we use the SnapMirror predominantly for this process in the cloud which is beneficial."
"Azure NetApp Files has been stable."
"Using NetApp Files got us out of a really difficult situation quickly, effectively, and at a reasonable cost."
"The critical features of this solution are SnapMirror for replication, data protection, and SnapLock."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its flexibility."
"You can change it non-disruptively. You can increase the size and decrease the size online, which is a huge benefit compared to Azure disks. It just works seamlessly. You don't need to stop the instances."
"This solution definitely makes us more efficient in being able to provide storage quickly to our customers in the Azure Cloud."
"The most valuable feature is having the full features of my Nutanix on-premises applications in the cloud."
"The overall infrastructure is the most valuable part of Nutanix Cloud Clusters."
"The scalability is good."
"I've been very pleased with their support overall."
"Having a single pane of glass where you can have both your on-prem and anything else that you spin up within AWS is useful."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Clusters is to protect the data."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Clusters are Prism Central, Micro-segmentation, and cluster scaling automation."
"Azure NetApp Files could improve by being more diverse to integrate better with other solutions, such as Splunk and the on-premise version. There are some use cases that are not covered natively by Azure. It is not the best solution because it is not external from the cloud which for me is the best type of solution."
"We were looking for a clustered solution that has over-complicated things because we had it in AWS, which is Amazon. There was a solution for clustered NetApp. That meant there would be two NetApps that were not clustered because there was no solution for a cluster. We would like there to be an HA cluster solution."
"This solution would be improved with more innovation."
"We would like to see more paired regions for the replication."
"We would like for the files which are coming in that we can version them. So, if a file is accidentally deleted, there should have a recycle bin option where we can go back, and at least once, clean it up."
"Reserved Instances for Azure NetApp Files would improve more use cases, making them more valuable in Azure as the cost would be reduced."
"I have a hunch that storage could be now the most expensive portion of our monthly bill. So I can imagine that, not this year, but next year we will be talking about looking deeper into ways how we can optimize the cost."
"I would like to see multi-zone redundancy so that I don't have to worry about it. I just back up my data to that one SMB share and I know that it's replicated to a different region."
"Perhaps the one thing that could be improved is the documentation around the solution."
"The biggest weakness with Clusters at this point is that the adoption rate is low because customers don't know enough about it."
"I'd like more flexible options to get in and out of migration modes."
"We've had some challenges with the implementation."
"The technical support for Nutanix Clusters could be better."
"The reporting has room for improvement."
"The pricing can be better."
"Some of the interfaces aren't as intuitive as they should be."
Azure NetApp Files is ranked 3rd in Cloud Migration with 12 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is ranked 13th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews. Azure NetApp Files is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure NetApp Files writes "We can expand our storage on-the-fly without the need to reprovision". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) writes "Helps manage costs, eliminates waste, and has excellent technical support". Azure NetApp Files is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Nasuni and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), whereas Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Stack, AWS Outposts, VMware Cloud on AWS and Microsoft Azure VMware. See our Azure NetApp Files vs. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) report.
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