We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The price was right."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"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."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"We like that the size of the box is 1U or 2U only, and all the servers are fit into that box. The ease of operation is there. All the servers and the SAN storage are inside the box."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"I like its storage capacity, quick access to the data, speed, and overall storage management."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"This is a great product."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"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."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"I believe that improvements could be made in regards to the DR in addition to deduplication and integration with others platforms. They also do not offer opportunities for network virtualization so it would be nice to see that in the future."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"The main thing Oracle can improve is the cost. It would be better if Oracle opened up the system to enable integration with other vendors. Whether it's the database, application server, or storage appliance, they should make it easy to integrate them. They need to open up more to ensure that it can work in any environment and IT ecosystem."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is ranked 8th in Modular SAN (Storage Area Network). Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is rated 7.6. 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 Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance writes "A stable unified storage system that enables quick access to data". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, IBM FlashSystem, HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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