We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StorPool based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."
"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."
"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system."
"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."
"With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node."
"The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are very I/O intensive."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface which can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix. All of these clusters cannot talk to each other. Then it has to be then subverted as a parallel execution. What happens then is that I have to work in two different environments within my data center. Practically, they are two different data centers but physically and logically, they are one. If they cannot talk to each other that creates a lot of issues. That is something which Nutanix has to develop because for Nutanix it is very simple. For example, Oracle is using a function called GoldenGate. They have a feature called GoldenGate which allows them to talk to various different environments which must really help."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"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."
"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."
"It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."
"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."
"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."
"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."
"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StorPool is ranked 20th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StorPool is rated 10.0. 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 StorPool writes "Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, LINBIT SDS, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN.
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