We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"Support has been helpful."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"Thin storage allocation"
"The Metro clustering and solid-state performance, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Linear performance – The XtremIO wasn’t the fastest in all tests against other all flash arrays, but even with a massive workload, the response time and user experience were absolutely predictable with no sharp drop-offs."
"The speed is extremely valuable."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"It has very good performance for an application which needs lower latency and a better response, for example, in microseconds."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"I like the deduplication and auto-tiering features."
"The ease of deployment is very good."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"It has been stable so far."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"We've encountered challenges in integrating other products with Dell Xtremio, as it tends to be more vendor-locked. This means we can't easily explore other solutions that might work alongside Dell."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"In some cases where we don’t need the flexibility of the virtualization layer, we could free up resources on the VPLEX by using the storage replication."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"It needs a way to determine the deduplication of each LUN and what the impact would be if we were to move data from one LUN to another."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"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."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
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Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our Dell XtremIO vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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