We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"The program is stable."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"Single-click upgrades are the most valuable feature. In the sector in which we work, it is tough to have downtime and arrange firmware upgrades."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"Exporting data from the dashboard is not very user-friendly. It's just designed in a way that it's going to cover let's say 90%, 80%, of the end-users needs. If you need more sophisticated reporting it's not easy to have."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."
"The installation is complex."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"Compatible with third party hardware, but it's still very limited."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"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."
"Nutanix now supports four hypervisors but they are not all at feature parity."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
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Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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