We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"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 number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"One thing to keep in mind is that only experts can use it. It has to be in the proper hands, instead of going to XYZ people just for some cost savings. So lift-and-shift and migrations might be tricky, because it is not like a VMware."
"The patch updates of Nutanix Acropolis could be improved. I'm work on the corporate side, but I get feedback from our IT team that patch updates and other updates are taking a significantly longer time. This definitely needs to be resolved. We are in discussion with Nutanix regarding certain configuration issues we are having, so maybe something can be changed to ease these patch updates."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
"The documentation could be improved."
"I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be improved, but I'm actually very satisfied with this product. There may be some possibilities to move the virtual server dismounting points or to move the server from one group to another, but I can't think of any special improvements or update features."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 28th in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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