We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and SolidFire 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."StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"The stability is good. This is the number-one product in that regard."
"I definitely find the reduced power consumption very valuable. Another aspect I really like, when one compares Citrix to VMware, is the interface where you talk directly to your VM from the present software."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"One-Click Upgrade and Foundation is the most valuable feature. One-Click Upgrade makes upgrades and LCM a breeze. Prior to Nutanix One-Click Upgrade, upgrades and LCM were overly cumbersome and time-consuming. Foundation provides an easy, yet very structured, approach to cluster modification (adding or removing nodes)."
"You can be sure that whatever you patch is already compatible with the current firmware and the current version of the Acropolis that you're using."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"Templates are already predefined for it. If you're coding it up, it will take two days. You can pick up a template right there from the API, and it just works for you. Implementation done in 10 minutes."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"It's got full API functionality and the performance is pretty steady."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"The simplicity of it."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"Areas for improvement would be the memory setting and the CPU setting reserve features, which are not available on Acropolis. I also feel that the DR solution, the reporting, and the component that is combined with the Nutanix OSP need to be improved."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"The initial setup can be a bit difficult."
"Nutanix should improve AHV to support migration VMs between clusters and storage containers. Migration between containers is possible, but it requires shutting down the VM. The procedure is long and there is no migration between clusters at all."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"The tool should improve its initial cost which is expensive compared to other products."
"This solution would be improved if it were made to be more compatible with other products."
"The upgrade process could be better."
"The scalability of HCI or SolidFire as such isn't a concern, but when you compare it to PowerMax or NetApp AFF series devices, scalability is a concern because it's only the drives that are connected to the nodes. We don't have any shelf connectivity."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, VMware vSAN and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. SolidFire report.
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