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."The hardware has been rock solid so far. It has gone up easy. It runs well. We have not had issues with it."
"The product is robust, stable, and has flexibility."
"The documentation alone that NetApp provides can guide anybody through the setup process."
"If the network or site is down, you just need to go to a single vendor. You don't have to open up multiple cases with each vendor to get things done. That is one of the financial benefits of this solution."
"I really like the architecture and I like the fact that on the storage side I can swap it out. Right now I'm on NetApp, I might go to Pure Storage. I have the flexibility. But as far as the equipment itself, the way it's all bundled together, from the UCS perspective, its rock solid."
"It has simplified our support."
"FlexPod has affected the workload of our network admin team awesomely. We have fewer employees. It's good."
"With FlexPod, it is about the synergy of the server, the storage, and the whole management layer. Together, it is really about minimizing staff. You don't have to hire more people. You can work with the minimum level of resources and the availability is really good. We have had very little downtime."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"A lot of features are there, but for us, on the server administration side, creating a clone of the VM is valuable because many times, we have to deploy security patches. For deploying these patches, it helps to have a clone so that if something goes wrong, we can discard that VM and put back the clone VM. That is a very cool feature."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"It gives us a single dashboard to control multiple sites and multiple zones. It helps to do things on a single platform and data sharing is quite easy. The network and the security are easy to manage."
"I would like to see more interoperability within FlexPods. This comes into more of how we grow from multiple domains to a massive domain."
"NetApp has some tools that you can purchase to do performance management, or you can go with another vendor and buy a product which does the same thing. It would be nice if there was more of these features with the product, not add-ons."
"They should cram more space in there and find a way to compress things more; dedupe better."
"There are apparently some new products coming around the whole FlexPod side of things with regards to auditing, to ensure everything is configured correctly. It's basically a "delta" if there have been any changes. It's important to us, from a support perspective, to know if there have been changes and what impact they have actually had."
"The interface is a little convoluted."
"Newer platform reference architectures take a long time to harden and be publicly available."
"There is a lot of documentation that has to be reviewed before you go through an upgrade. It is not as straightforward as some other solutions."
"Hardware stability needs improvement. We replaced a lot of RAM this past year. We had to replace the complete blade once after extensive troubleshooting. Any given time, we have approximately one blade down within the entire infrastructure, unfortunately."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The technology has a lot of room for improvement. For example, when they want to segment applications in conjunction with NSX, which VMware uses, Acropolis is not compatible with the competitors. The integration in the security layer is not compatible with NSX for the application segmentation that uses VMware."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"The self-service side of the product needs to be improved. We should be able to add two-factor authentication and more security layers to it."
"In terms of automation, I know there are ways to do it, but it's not very user-friendly. I've been working for the last three years with Nutanix and I've managed to automate certain things, but it's a somewhat more complex job than it should be. I would like to see more documentation or knowledge base articles."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
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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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