We performed a comparison between Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and Nutanix Unified Storage 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."The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"I appreciate its storage licensing model, as it offers flexibility."
"The most important point is the simplicity of the API integration. We can leverage the API integrations and connect our hybrid-cloud network environment with Nutanix's cloud storage."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Unified Storage are the unified dashboard and the ease of administration."
"Nutanix Unified Storage does a very good job of unifying our organization's block, file, and object storage. It puts it all in one place. From one platform, we can deploy S3-type buckets. We can provide iSCSI-level block storage if we need to. It does a great job with home folders and departmental shares, which is what we mostly use Nutanix Unified Storage for."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"The management interface is great and you have handy access to several details about your file shares."
"The integration with Prism Central makes it a lot easier to manage, so we just have a single pane of glass location that we can go to. We do not have a separate admin console or anything that we have to use."
"The most valuable features are the interface and support."
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"Improving quota policies would be advantageous, particularly by offering the option to implement blocking instead of just issuing warnings."
"One thing I'd appreciate is having a desktop application similar to what VMware offered."
"The only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"The solution should increase its storage capabilities."
"The current hardware is not as dense as it could be. In our deployment, we have 2 PB per site, and we have to have 24 nodes. That's a lot of cabling and network ports that we use up. More dense nodes would be better."
"Lowering the price would improve this product."
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Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and IBM Spectrum Scale, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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