We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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.
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"The administration console, automation, and the first cluster are all valuable features."
"The ease of deployment is very good."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"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."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"We opted for 24-hour monitoring and support, which has already paid for itself."
"We have the ProActive Premium Support and it has reduced our monitoring efforts. It has been very useful. They have been able to detect things such as when there's an issue with the cluster or they're getting some kind of weird reading that I have no idea about. They're really quick to let me know about it and even set up a schedule to address it. I've been very happy with their level of support on that."
"The solution has provided our company with a fully redundant virtual environment at half the cost of a traditional SAN implementation."
"Being able to upgrade machines and software during business operations just by switching nodes has been a huge improvement. We"
"We also opted for 24-hour support monitoring for any issues. They are extremely quick to respond on issues we even cause ourselves such as bumping a network cable."
"Overall, the solution has improved our system's performance. I was concerned about the physical-to-virtual conversion of our database server. It's actually much faster now, as a virtualized host on this Hyper-V cluster."
"The pricing and discounts given by Starwind on the hardware were unmatched."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"Notifications could be improved as they're not currently very useful."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"We'd like an easier setup for Windows updates on the Hyper-V servers so you don't have to use a script to ensure auto-updating is done."
"It would be nice if the software told you a new version was available and prompted you to do the upgrade to keep everything up to date."
"I think some performance metrics would be nice to see, especially on the storage side."
"If I had to pick something to add to the product, it would be nice if you could have more than one user account on their command center VM."
"There is room for improvement in the setup and installation phase. We had massive problems connecting the StarWind appliances to our network infrastructure. That wasn't necessarily a StarWind problem. I don't know if their business partner in the UK wasn't used to having to deal with the supply of the cabling infrastructure, but that's where the problems started."
"We ran into some issues with going from Hyper-V 2012 R2 to Hyper-V 2019."
"We need to be very cautious in following every step when updating the physical host. We must move over each VM and drain roles from the servers to ensure everything goes smoothly without interruptions. If this were a more automated process, this would be less taxing each time an upgrade is needed."
"We haven't had to use the ProActive Premium Support feature much yet. But they contacted me one time because there was a glitch on one server, a networking issue... I have not seen the problem since."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, StorMagic SvSAN and HPE SimpliVity. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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