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"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"It has been stable so far."
"One major thing that comes up again and again is stability. Our downtime is literally based on hardware upgrades that need to be done. Acropolis is very, very user friendly. You don't have to physically have a super IT guy to manage the system. You can actually give it to a younger guy to manage and there won't be problems. And if he makes a mistake, it's very, very easy to fall back and sort out the mistake."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"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."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"It was not a great fit for really large databases that required high-end or lots of compute. They might already have addressed this concern around very high-end databases that require high-end compute. In the past, it wasn't a great fit for them."
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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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