We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"The flexibility of this system is very good. It's also faster than others, and has skilled technical support who showed more initiative than a competitor, e.g. VMware."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"It is less expensive than VMware products. It is also a little bit more flexible, but it really comes down to price for us."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Maxta [EOL] writes "Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
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