We performed a comparison between NetApp AFF and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"We just migrated two petabytes of data storage from IBM over to NetApp All Flash. Some of the performance improvement that we've seen is 100 times I/O and microsecond latency."
"Its top-tier performance ranks as the most valuable aspect."
"The in-line dedupe, and the compaction saves us a lot of space because most of our AFFs house VMware VMDK files."
"Our AFF 8040 is currently helping us in terms of response time and speed because it is a flash system. Most importantly, it enables our SQL Cluster to respond to database queries and things a lot faster. It minimizes latency."
"The Active IQ feature is a productive mechanism that automatically collects reports and users' statuses."
"We use the NFS and SIP protocols a lot. The NFS is the most valuable feature."
"Storage is very reliable. You don't have to do much maintenance."
"It's helping to leverage data. The storage is being utilized to implement larger, complex file sizes."
"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."
"Its most valuable feature is simplicity. It is so easy to use. Upgrades are easy. It is easy in terms of disaster recovery, failover, database provisioning, and reporting. Everything about it is just simple."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"The solution offers impressive performance."
"Ease of deployment"
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"Offering the ability to actively write data on a single volume spanning multiple clusters is significant."
"The dashboard needs improvement. The dashboard needs some uplift"
"We don't have many issues related to the appliance itself. In terms of the OS, we do get some hiccups here and there."
"I would like to see more frequent updates at a faster pace."
"The stability is good but there is room for improvement with other options."
"The initial setup was a little complex, because we weren't very knowledgeable in the NetApp at the time. We were using a third-party, and they didn't have a lot of technical individuals, so it took a while to get it out."
"I want an interface through ONTAP that look more like what it does for the E-Series with Santricity."
"The total cost of ownership has increased a little."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"This solution would be improved with built-in integration with Rubrik."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"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."
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NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. NetApp AFF is rated 9.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, VMware vSAN and NetApp FAS Series, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our NetApp AFF vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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