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."The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"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 most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"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."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"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."
"This solution would be improved with built-in integration with Rubrik."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"Benchmark testing indicated that workloads did slightly better on our Vblock by a few percentage"
"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."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
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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 192 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.6, 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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