We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Frame-Based Disk Arrays solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of the most valuable features is the capability to switch between all-flash to hybrid, which have have actually done for one of our arrays. We started with the hybrid, with the limited if I'm not mistaken, and then over a period of time, we swapped all the hybrids with the SSDs. This was one of the big features because it gave us the capability to not stick with just one kind of media. Secondly, since it has sorted clustering, we were able to bring in the newer boxes and have it all clustered together. These were the two main features that we really looked into, which benefited our use case from an expansion/growth perspective. Another valuable feature is the ease of management."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replicate. We are running a financial company and it needs to be available 24/7. We can't afford any downtime."
"Easy management of volumes: You can create volumes and easily assign them to VMware clusters, increasing their size."
"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."
"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"Technical support is okay."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"The scalability is great."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"The administration and support (on the way that they delivered) was a little bit slow."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable."
"While there's always room for improvement in everything, I can't really think of a specific feature of the solution that requires immediate attention."
"The lower model, the 3000, should have duplication. It doesn't right now. It's only from 5000 that this is offered, but it depends on the performance. It could be they don't offer it on lower models because the duplication is too much of a burden to the performance."
"The price could be improved."
"We had times that we needed a file service solution. We've used FluidFS, but it's a solution that is being transitioned out."
"One option I would like to see is, when you're up on the view-screen, to be able to incorporate getting to what HPE call the iLO, the Integrated Lights-Out. To be able to get that instead of having to go back and trying to find IP addresses and re-institute those would be good. It would be good to be able to that put on the initial splash screen."
"There's always room for improvement in the operating code."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
"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."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"The file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"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."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 3rd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 49 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Dell SC Series vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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