We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."For the management side of our UCS, it is a single pane of glass for multiple people, whether it is data center, sysadmin, or server deployment."
"Everything is preconfigured. We can ship it and manage it remotely from any server. It is all in a box."
"You can just take out blades and replace them, and you're back up and running in no time."
"NetApp is always coming up with features that I want before I know that I want them."
"The best thing about this solution is the tight integration with VMware, Cisco, and NetApp from both a hardware and software perspective."
"The most significant benefit is storage flexibility. FlexPod is a reference design to build on and add the appropriate resources you need for your workloads. That's what differentiates it from something like HCI, where you have to buy certain size pieces when you want to expand."
"The agility is probably the most valuable feature for us. It's very easy to send out resources."
"Simplicity and integration with NetApp are its most valuable features."
"Some of the most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis are that it's free from Nutanix and it's very stable."
"Management is simple"
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"It has been stable so far."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"In the world of IT operations, there is a lot of noise. Traditionally, systems would generate a great deal of alerts, events, and notifications, often leading to the operator either a) not seeing critical alerts since they are lost in the noise or b) disregarding the alerts/events."
"I think they can always improve, whether it's dedupe or compression, those algorithms; and flash through better SSDs."
"It could be more innovative."
"I have noticed a lot of customers, they will kick it over the fence. It is FlexPod; it is that mystery animal. The room for improvement is to better present it to those users, so they will not have to be afraid of it."
"They should have an easier user interface to get it up and running."
"Updates are not frequent enough."
"The upgrade process needs to be improved and it would be nice to manage everything from a single pane of glass."
"The ability to manage the templates across sites. We would like to easily take out the configuration of one FlexPod and copy it over, just making minor changes. There is a way to do it, but it's clumsy."
"If they could reduce some of the complexity at the system manager level for ONTAP. I find it gives a lot of flexibility. You can do as much or as little as you want. But to be able to do as little as you want, you do have to do a lot. So, if they could bring that down to a more manageable effort level, that would be nice and simplify it a bit."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, VxRail, Dell VxBlock System and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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