We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its array houses our entire production environment."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"Very efficient storage"
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup a nine out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy."
"We are most interested in cloud utilization."
"Enterprise Cloud Storage is the most valuable feature, along with the data services which come with it, plus the deduplication and compression."
"It significantly simplifies storage."
"The PowerMax software and CloudIQ let us get an inside view of our compression and compaction, as well as our usage of the storage."
"PowerMax, with version 9.02, which we installed recently, has some very good features, such as CloudIQ."
"First, it's an enterprise storage solution. This is very important for us. Another important feature is replication."
"The compression and deduplication are the most valuable features because of the cost savings."
"Its most valuable feature is simplicity. It is so easy to use. Upgrades are easy. It is easy in terms of disaster recovery, failover, database provisioning, and reporting. Everything about it is just simple."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"I can use VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything I need without spend more money on licenses."
"The scalability is great."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"One major thing that comes up again and again is stability. Our downtime is literally based on hardware upgrades that need to be done. Acropolis is very, very user friendly. You don't have to physically have a super IT guy to manage the system. You can actually give it to a younger guy to manage and there won't be problems. And if he makes a mistake, it's very, very easy to fall back and sort out the mistake."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"They could improve the price."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"I believe it would be of great benefit to work on the customization of the pricing structure for different enterprises and their specific needs."
"The initial setup was a little bit complicated."
"The price could be lower, and we are unhappy with the price."
"Although they call it unified storage where you have SAN and NAS, with a NAS implementation on top of a SAN, the NAS implementation is a little complicated and clumsy. As SAN, as block storage, it is very powerful... If they could provide a very good NAS implementation, it would be better, so that customers don't have to look for other simple solutions for NAS."
"The initial setup process is difficult."
"I think management is where PowerMax is weakest. We're still managing it like we managed EMC arrays in the early 2000s. There's a slicker, fancier GUI that does more things, but at the end of the day, you still have to dig into the command line and issue a lot of the same commands that we still were using almost 20 years ago."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The software-defined networking should be improved. It is quite substandard as compared to the VMware variant. The software-defined networking is quite limited, and we usually use other products to do that. We're aware that Nutanix is working on that and will be coming out with better solutions, and we can't wait because to do a fully software-defined architecture, the abstraction layer needs not only software-defined storage, which you have, but also the software-defined networking piece."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
"I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 3rd in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 66 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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