We performed a comparison between Azure Stack and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."In general, it provides the flexibility for configuration for bigger teams."
"It is probably the best solution out there."
"Azure Stack is a good product because it's flexible and easy to work with."
"Azure Stack provides us with computational power. We also get an option to have it with Azure Cloud, which is beneficial. We don't need to buy any other extra servers or any virtual machines with high-end graphics."
"From my experience, this solution is suitable for enterprise companies."
"It has every feature that we need and overall, it's pretty good."
"The tool has simplified our application development."
"I appreciate that all the tools are available natively within Azure. It's all set up nicely. It's all minor."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"It has enterprise data services with consolidated storage data protection and disaster recovery. One valuable aspect is its efficiency as a robust platform. There is an ease of managing all processes. The data recovery process is remarkably fast. It’s a stable solution. The product is scalable. It provides high-speed live migration capability."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The tool is simple, stable, and easy to upgrade. It also requires few resources to manage, which simplifies our work. The solution's ease of upgrading is its valuable feature. AHV, provided by Nutanix, is excellent in performance and ease of use. It's based on an open-source product called KVM, which I also use for other services."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"A lot of features are there, but for us, on the server administration side, creating a clone of the VM is valuable because many times, we have to deploy security patches. For deploying these patches, it helps to have a clone so that if something goes wrong, we can discard that VM and put back the clone VM. That is a very cool feature."
"In the future, I would like to see more machine learning features."
"The setup for Azure becomes more complex when you have multiple users and multiple organizations using the same solution, but this is to be expected."
"Having more options and customization would be an improvement."
"It should provide more core on the VM and support multi-scale units."
"In some cases, we've seen that some financial software is not working correctly or compatible with Azure Stack. Many companies build this, but some third-party products may not be compatible with Azure Stack. So these are some areas of improvement."
"Certain elements are difficult to deploy."
"There should be more focus on the user interface, specifically for the management console."
"The fact that it is completely integrated into Azure, while positive, is also a downside."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"Our client had some old Citrix Xen servers for which there is no direct migration. Nutanix has a move utility for Microsoft Hyper-V clusters or VMware clusters. You can easily migrate them using the move utility, but the Xen clusters cannot be migrated in a simple way. That is the only thing that is lacking, but nowadays, no one uses the Citrix Xen server for their clusters. Everything else is already there. Nutanix keeps on upgrading its hardware's or hypervisor's capability to be able to support new technologies."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"I believe that improvements could be made in regards to the DR in addition to deduplication and integration with others platforms. They also do not offer opportunities for network virtualization so it would be nice to see that in the future."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
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Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 56 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) with 194 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) and Google Anthos, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Azure Stack vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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