We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Scale Computing HC3 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 iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"Single-click upgrades are the most valuable feature. In the sector in which we work, it is tough to have downtime and arrange firmware upgrades."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"The dashboard of Nutanix Acropolis AOS allows for simple management. The dashboard has all the information online about what's going on at any given time."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is new technology in a competitive market. Pricing is too high for a new product and requires better discounts to be able to compete with IBM, Dell EMC, and HP."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"The documentation could be improved."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"The reporting feature isn't very good."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"The product could use a better control center."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 21st in HCI with 7 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.6. 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 Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Scale Computing HC3 report.
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