We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure FlashArray X NVMe based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"Nutanix does a superb job with technical support."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability."
"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"It has good, reliable, fast storage."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"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 file services that they also provide need some more features, like on the Windows file server."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"One of the improvements I would like to have is related to naming. It is getting confusing because they are using three-letter acronyms, which are more or less misleading. What I do not like is that they changed names and reused names. They had a meaning in the past and they are still using the names for something similar."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"I would like to see replication and DR features in the next release of this solution."
"We need better data deduplication."
"It's more multi-tenant functionality in their Pure1 manage portal that is lacking."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is ranked 5th in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 27 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure FlashArray X NVMe is rated 9.2. 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 Pure FlashArray X NVMe writes "Works well, is easy to implement, and has upgrade analysis capabilities". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Pure FlashArray X NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure FlashArray X NVMe report.
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