We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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."Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Dell PowerStore is an easy and fast tool to work through our company's data."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"The PowerStore's compression ratio is even higher than the Unity system."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"It provides a big benefit when upgrading a new VMware environment. For example, in a big environment with 10 to 30 ESXs, you can take everything and put that into PowerStore. So, it is cost-effective, which is very important and has been massive for us. You reduce almost 80% from the hardware and work directly from PowerStore. Building hardware, especially in a big VMware environment, is a big issue for my organization."
"Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued."
"Its flexibility is valuable because we have had some moments where we had to adapt, and it has been quite flexible."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"The management interface of this solution is great."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."
"We like that the size of the box is 1U or 2U only, and all the servers are fit into that box. The ease of operation is there. All the servers and the SAN storage are inside the box."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"Dell PowerStore is a good solution overall, but some models could support hypervisors better by allowing for more customization and flexibility for customer needs."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"You cannot delegate permissions."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"There are certain shortcomings with the technical support team of Dell PowerStore, where improvements are required."
"We would consider this solution if the pricing is competitive with other options, as it offers a very good solution. However, the current price is slightly higher than the competition."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"I think some of the tasks that must be done using CLI could be added to the web interface."
"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."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
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Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 46 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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