We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and SolidFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"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 StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"It has enterprise data services with consolidated storage data protection and disaster recovery. One valuable aspect is its efficiency as a robust platform. There is an ease of managing all processes. The data recovery process is remarkably fast. It’s a stable solution. The product is scalable. It provides high-speed live migration capability."
"Flexibility. We're able to mix performance nodes with storage nodes easily. Unlike other vendors where, if we start a hyperconverged solution with them, we have to stick to a specific model, to a specific series with specific capabilities, with Nutanix it's very easy to mix and match the best solution, especially for a dynamic infrastructure like ours."
"The snapshots, cloning, and replication are all effective in helping to reduce downtime. It can replicate cluster data for disaster recovery and it provides high availability in case a node or a disk fails."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"The square footage for doing development is at a premium when dealing with government networks. To be able to put a lot of IOPS in a lot of high-speed performing drives in a very small location which requires very little HVAC with very little power, it is very valuable to us."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"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."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure can be improved in terms of the sizing of the solution."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"The tool should improve its initial cost which is expensive compared to other products."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"SolidFire should start from two nodes instead of the four nodes. That's the only thing. In a lot of solutions, we have to use four nodes, that's the better thing. But as a starting point, two is better. That's why their starting point is expensive."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
"This solution would be improved if it were made to be more compatible with other products."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, VMware vSAN and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. SolidFire report.
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