We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support is okay."
"One of the most valuable features of Nutanix is that it's easy to use. I love this solution—it's easy to maintain and update, and I think it's almost perfect."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"The product is easy to manage."
"Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability."
"It's quite easy to scale, and you have the option to have distributed nodes everywhere around the world that work as one. You can also have a solution for small branch offices with only two nodes for redundancy, and that's good enough to start."
"It's much easier and faster even when you want to create a server from a template or clone."
"The most valuable feature is the unified dashboard, as it allows us to easily observe everything from a single location."
"What I found most valuable in Nutanix Files Storage is its high availability and ability to scale out with many VMs."
"The most valuable feature is that it is highly available, solving the pain-point of delaying updates to Windows-based file servers during production hours. And then the second one would be ransomware protection and analytics. It gives you great visibility and protection on your file shares that are otherwise the most common sources of vulnerabilities."
"The Nutanix block files are the most valuable feature."
"The solution is stable and extremely easy to calibrate."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"The reliability and availability are the most valuable features. Reliability is important because it can run my workloads. I need to be able to take advantage of the VMs that are executing on the storage. It has to be reliable. It's also important to have the storage available for scaling VMs on demand."
"The solution is easy to use, share, and manage."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"The documentation could be improved."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"The interface could be improved."
"If they can add an integrated DLP feature, it would be great."
"With all of the Nutanix equipment, the licensing is expensive. We operate in the enterprise space, but we're a midsized company. At times, the price tag is a little bit shocking for a company with only 35 employees."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"Nutanix should improve the one-click upgrade. There are a lot of dependencies on third-party licenses and HP hardware we use internally. The one-click upgrade fails sometimes."
"We would love to see the analytics and ransomware protection extended beyond just file servers to virtual machines, but they have a different product that covers that."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 39 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. 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 Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Microsoft Azure Object Storage. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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