We performed a comparison between Nutanix Unified Storage and Qumulo based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is pretty straightforward. With a few clicks, you can stand up your storage. It reduces the overall life cycle of deployment within the ecosystem."
"Unified Storage's centralized management features enable us to accomplish whatever we want in terms of operations and migrations."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is easy to use. New employees are able to come up to speed fairly quickly with regard to the day-to-day administration processes."
"The solution is easy to use, share, and manage."
"Nutanix Objects is reliable."
"The management interface is great and you have handy access to several details about your file shares."
"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."
"I like Nutanix Prism Central. The primary benefit is that we can manage everything from the same page."
"The most valuable features of Qumulo are its rolling updates and all-day availability."
"The ratio of total operational cost to complexity versus feature set is very good."
"It is a very stable product. I never faced any issues."
"The most valuable features of Qumulo are the ease of management and special permissions that are quick to enable. The overall performance of the solution is good."
"The most valuable feature is real-time analytics."
"The feature that I like most is the analytics part of the file system."
"The data protection algorithm to protect the data between the nodes has been the most valuable feature. The integration with backup platforms such as Veeam and Veritas has also been valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Qumulo is the ability to share files and reliability."
"Unified Storage failed to fulfill our object storage requirements."
"The GUI is easy to use, but it's complex to do tasks from the command line. That is one way they could simplify things for the engineers. People tend to use a graphical interface more than the command line interface. If anything goes wrong, we need to do troubleshooting from the CLI. It would be nice if there were more ways to fix issues within the GUI."
"Nutanix needs to improve their cybersecurity options at the storage level."
"One thing I'd appreciate is having a desktop application similar to what VMware offered."
"The interface is not logical. It should be a little simpler."
"The only thing I would say is missing for us it is FTP protocol compatibility."
"We have issues with software updates occasionally."
"Customer service is more difficult to call and they do not responding as much as, for example, DataCore. It's not the same level of satisfaction compared to DataCore. Responses could be faster."
"The solution could improve availability and improve data protection or data services such as compression of deduplication. In a future release, we'd like to have more cloud API integrations."
"The support for iMac and protocols should be improved, not all features are available."
"One aspect of Qumulo that I hoped to see improved was its software upgrade process, which did see significant progress during my usage. Initially, upgrading the software resulted in several minutes of system downtime. However, by the time I departed last summer, the downtime had reduced to mere ten seconds. Although I am unsure if Qumulo has yet achieved a completely outage-free upgrade, I simply performed the upgrades early in the morning before the marketing department began its workday, so any downtime was inconsequential."
"In the next release, I would like to see the ability to have more control at a terminal level of the file system."
"The price of the software is a bit expensive, so a reduction in cost would make it more competitive."
"Qumulo should continue to expand automation and orchestration capabilities."
"Some anti-theft permissions do not transfer well to Qumulo."
"In the future, I would like to see non-disruptive updates."
Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 4th in File and Object Storage with 39 reviews while Qumulo is ranked 7th in File and Object Storage with 8 reviews. Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0, while Qumulo is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qumulo writes "Useful data sharing, simple cluster scaling, and excellent support". Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and VAST Data, whereas Qumulo is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, Scality RING, Nasuni and Cloudian HyperStore. See our Nutanix Unified Storage vs. Qumulo report.
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