We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"The HCI environment itself is very intuitive. Everything is centralized under one solution. And, they also have fast server built in in addition to a network analyzer."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"The scalability is great."
"We have had good feedback from our customers about this solution."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The consolidation of the management in one control point is the most valuable. The whole infrastructure management is consolidated in just one console point. The documentation is also pretty good."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"The most useful feature is the solution's automation in terms of how we are able to spin up a certain workload in real-time when we are doing R&D."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"I would like to see more Kubernetes and container-related workflows and multiple cloud-partner management. I would also like to see how they will synergize all these AI/ML functionalities that are available on other platforms."
"The scalability of the solution had some issues because there were many VMs and the replication ran into some bottlenecks. It was an issue that was known to Nutanix and it was not disclosed to the customer."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"The main issue is the initial investment. It is an expensive product, and it should be cheaper. It should also be easier to use and manage. The professional service for this solution is quite complex and expensive."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
"The licensing policy needs to be improved. They have a licensing policy based on the number of CPU sockets. Nowadays what has happened is that the license they are trying to move is based on the number of CPU cores. With the advancement in technology there are now more cores in a single CPU. It's been very challenging in terms of managing the license around everything. Today we have a processor with 24 and 32 cores on the same physical CPU."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"The cloud deployment could be improved."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is very difficult to operate. You have to have a deep understanding of the technical details of the infrastructure to implement it. When you compare it with VMware, it is totally different because the graphical user interface is not that easy to understand. It is not intuitive. To use it, you have to read a lot of documentation and even understand what is going on behind the solution. It is not for someone who has a little bit of knowledge. Currently, it is too complex. I need something that is easy to implement. It should have a basic configuration as well as a complex configuration."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 23rd in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure writes "Comes in a small, compact model that does not have any separate management but it is not so stable". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure.
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