We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] 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."It's quite easy to manage."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The tool is simple, stable, and easy to upgrade. It also requires few resources to manage, which simplifies our work. The solution's ease of upgrading is its valuable feature. AHV, provided by Nutanix, is excellent in performance and ease of use. It's based on an open-source product called KVM, which I also use for other services."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"Ease of deployment"
"Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"This is a great product."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"We ran into an issue as a managed service provider because Acropolis isn't designed to be used the way we are running it. For example, if we want to deploy a Kubernetes service, the customer networks need to reach our protected cluster network. We have isolated our customers in separate VLANs. However, our customers' networks must access our cluster network to get features like iSCSI or Kubernetes to run. It's challenging."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"Native File-Services are under heavy development and Container Services just came out."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"I would like to see Acropolis add the ability to migrate VMs between storage containers. I don't know if they've added this in the latest versions, but I haven't seen it yet. It's mainly about AHV. When we use VMware, we can move between storage containers. In VMware, it's just like regular storage, and we can move it."
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Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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