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."StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"The architecture of Nutanix is the best, and the virtualization we get, out of the box, is an advantage. Also, dedupe and compression are done natively, inside the platform, so there are no additional licenses. That adds value to it."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"The best feature of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the central management of all of our resources. Additionally, it is easy to use"
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"In general, being able to patch and not having to pay for SanDisk is the best thing about hyper-converged."
"I like its storage capacity, quick access to the data, speed, and overall storage management."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"The latency needs improvement"
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"Make it easier to manage."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"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 29 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 "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". On the other hand, 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, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, IBM FlashSystem and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform.
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