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."It's very easy to manage."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward and can be done in an hour and a half by one person."
"I like most of the features. Its speed, performance, and availability are valuable. We are implementing the data reduction technology the most."
"The valuable features are high availability, compression, and a failover mechanism. It's a very highly available storage solution."
"IBM FlashSystem is a flexible solution with plenty of features."
"We've found the solution to be very stable so far."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"One of the most valuable features is how well this solution performs. It's stable, aside from some patch issues, but it's great from a virtualization and scalability perspective."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is stable. We didn't receive any concerns regarding any problems, The customers have no concerns about the reliability."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"Flexibility. We're able to mix performance nodes with storage nodes easily. Unlike other vendors where, if we start a hyperconverged solution with them, we have to stick to a specific model, to a specific series with specific capabilities, with Nutanix it's very easy to mix and match the best solution, especially for a dynamic infrastructure like ours."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The management interface of this solution is great."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"The solution is not able to replicate data in one-to-many scenario."
"The only issue my team faced was transferring the data from the old system to IBM FlashSystem, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Enterprise data storage needs improvement. They should create a feature for data and file storage."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
"The pricing could be improved, but I think it's getting better and better with each version. IBM needs to implement NAS storage again, as this is a big flaw. Dell EMC is very good at this and if you compared them based on NAS storage, Dell EMC would win right away. IBM's solution for NAS storage is very complicated. We don't have a storage box that provides file sharing from itself, we have to put software on it and go through a whole complicated process. It should be simplified."
"Customization features must be improved."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"The software-defined networking should be improved. It is quite substandard as compared to the VMware variant. The software-defined networking is quite limited, and we usually use other products to do that. We're aware that Nutanix is working on that and will be coming out with better solutions, and we can't wait because to do a fully software-defined architecture, the abstraction layer needs not only software-defined storage, which you have, but also the software-defined networking piece."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"An area for improvement would be the cyber security features."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
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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, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT 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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