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"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."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"Technical support is okay."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has a simple, user-friendly GUI, and I also like the remote recovery capabilities. It provides a single platform for managing databases."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"This is a great product."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"Pricing and varieties of options could be better."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"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 cost of the solution is too expensive. There are other options, such as VMware, that are offered for less money. In Latin America, it seems to be overpriced for the market."
"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 software-defined networking should be improved. It is quite substandard as compared to the VMware variant. The software-defined networking is quite limited, and we usually use other products to do that. We're aware that Nutanix is working on that and will be coming out with better solutions, and we can't wait because to do a fully software-defined architecture, the abstraction layer needs not only software-defined storage, which you have, but also the software-defined networking piece."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. 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 Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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