We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution is convenient, user-friendly, convenient and reliable."
"The performance of IBM FlashSystem is very good. The new technology and high throughput have given us more confidence in the solution. The management of the system has improved and we can control the monitoring system alerts and multiple FlashSystems with the Enterprise Cloud Edition, which is free. The migration of recently stored data to a new flash is much easier. You can move your data because you can utilize it externally."
"The technical support for this solution is good. They used to help us when the motherboard of Power Systems broke. Their response times are really fast."
"The solution allows for easy migrations from previous products or vendors via its embedded storage virtualization function."
"The performance is very good and we use this product to enhance our core system."
"The most crucial feature of IBM FlashSystem is compression."
"IBM FlashSystem has an easy to use GUI, similar to the IBM Storewize family, which make it one of the best flash storage systems in the market."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and performance."
"It consolidates our servers, and improves our electricity consumption and cooling as well."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"Single-click upgrades are the most valuable feature. In the sector in which we work, it is tough to have downtime and arrange firmware upgrades."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"The generic functionality of IBM FlashSystem, IBM always dismisses using file share or sharing protocols inside their storage hardware, and they only focus on the block-level storage."
"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."
"The basic setup can be challenging when it comes to certain IP addresses and the configuration of the IP. You have to go in to different menus to makes changes and ensure it is stable."
"The security features can be improved such that the encryption does not affect performance in any way."
"Sometimes the performance is effective but it gets resolved in the process."
"The design is a little old-fashioned and could be updated. The rack is very primitive and designed in an older style."
"When you provision a datastore auto-format takes a long time"
"The pricing needs to be more competitive."
"The price could be lower."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface that can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I can create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix."
"The name of the solutions offered by Nutanix does not indicate what the tool does."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"Areas for improvement would be the memory setting and the CPU setting reserve features, which are not available on Acropolis. I also feel that the DR solution, the reporting, and the component that is combined with the Nutanix OSP need to be improved."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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