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 product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"One-click setup is a valuable feature because it allows us to set up a server automatically with a single click."
"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."
"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."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"I can use VMware or Hyper-V license, if I already have. But if I use a similar solution as Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) that comes embedded in Nutanix solution, I can manage all my virtual environments with everything I need without spend more money on licenses."
"I like its storage capacity, quick access to the data, speed, and overall storage management."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"We did have some integration issues."
"It is a CentOS-based operating system, but CentOS releases security patches almost every week or every other week. However, Nutanix releases their upgrade at three or four month intervals. According to my organization's SLA, if a critical patch is released during that time, then I need to implement the patches within 30 days. If it is a standard patch, then I need to patch it within 60 days. Since that is my SLA, I cannot meet my SLA for security because Nutanix will not release the upgrade within these 30 days. Between the critical patch release and the Nutanix release, my customers say they are vulnerable and I am accepting the risk while the SLA is breached."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"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 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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