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."It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"Allows us to share files across multiple environments."
"GPFS monitoring is the best feature."
"It has been pretty reliable throughout the years. As far as capacity is concerned, it can handle most heavy loads."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."
"The profile share is a valuable feature."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"The scalability is great."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"This is probably the biggest challenge, getting everything upgraded, because it just takes time. We wish it was a faster solution to be able to do everything at once, but you have do each node individually. The more nodes, the longer it takes."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The pricing and licensing model for this solution are complex and it is sometimes difficult to explain it to customers."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"Maybe it needs integration with HA."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"The latency needs improvement"
"The product could be improved with more security. The product needs a bit more experience in the market. I think you don't have the possibility to add other hardware. It could be improved with the ability to add and extend."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"The price could be lower."
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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, VMware vSAN, DDN IME and Elastifile, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our IBM Spectrum Scale vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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