We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Scale and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It has been pretty reliable throughout the years. As far as capacity is concerned, it can handle most heavy loads."
"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"The product is easy to manage."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has a simple, user-friendly GUI, and I also like the remote recovery capabilities. It provides a single platform for managing databases."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."
"We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization."
"The main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"It would be helpful if there was a graphical user interface that could walk you through the deployment process. The instructions surrounding setup aren't the best. They need to be more step-by-step."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"I would like to see them utilize the spare storage that they use as a redundant space. I feel that now a lot of resources are wasted just for standby purposes because we are using data protection. Instead of utilizing those resources only when something happens, they can have an alternative so that we can utilize these resources all the time."
"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."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"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 does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
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IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews. IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, DDN IME, VMware vSAN and Elastifile, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex. See our IBM Spectrum Scale vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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